Prevention and treatment of heterophilia in pigs

Pigs are addicted to things they don't normally eat. Pica is a symptom caused by metabolic disorder and lack of nutrition. it is easy to occur in piglets and sows raised in the house. there are many reasons for pica, mainly in young pigs and sows.

1. Etiology: improper feed mix, lack of vitamins, phosphorus, calcium and other minerals, as well as some elements such as iron, copper, manganese, cobalt or inorganic salts. Other diseases such as chronic gastroenteritis, osteomalacia and parasitic diseases can also be caused.

two。 Symptoms: young pigs like to gnaw on soil, fence wood, sand and gravel, wall lime and mat grass mildew, etc., often have indigestion or diarrhea, long-term weight loss, anemia, dry or thin stool, loss of appetite, poor growth, sows generally eat cell coat after delivery, bite suckling pigs and so on. Sick pigs have small bile, easy to be frightened, rough coat, increased body temperature, accelerated pulse, decreased lactation, arched back and molars, gradually emaciated, weak, and often weak for a long time.

3. Autopsy: anemia, weight loss, subcutaneous, mesenteric, perirenal, coronal fat depletion, glandular atrophy, chronic catarrh of stomach and intestinal mucosa, osteoporosis thinning, brittle, easy to break.

4. Prevention and treatment:

We should strengthen feeding management, improve feed coordination, and properly supplement minerals and vitamins. Do not feed acid feed, once found sick pigs, in addition to more green feed and yeast, provide enough nutrition, found that rickets and rickets, you can add bone meal, calcium carbonate and vitamin A, D and so on. It can also give pigs only a chance to come into contact with fresh soil. If there is no osteomalacia and rickets complicated with pigs, you can try sodium bicarbonate, salt, artificial salt, 10 grams of 20 grams per day, can also be treated with plant ash (100 kg body weight 50 grams 100 grams). Other treatments include:

① 250g of lime and 1500 grams of cold water, stir with jars and cold water, take 3 tablespoons of upper lime clarifying liquid and feed to pigs.

② stone snail lion shell several jin, put into the column, let the pig feed.

Soak the fir charcoal in ③ salt water, put it in the pigsty and let the pigs feed on their own.

Put the old tile on the ④ house and put the charcoal into a column to let the pigs feed on their own.

⑤ Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz, Rhizoma Atractylodes, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Qingpi and licorice 10 grams each, tangerine peel, Poria cocos, Jiao Sanxian (Hawthorn, malt, tangerine peel) 15 grams each, water frying once (applicable to pigs weighing 30-50 kg).