The cause of the sudden death of pigs

In the process of raising pigs, there are actually many cases of sudden death of pigs, and the causes of the disease are also different, but the final result is the death of pig soil. This phenomenon generally occurs in piglets and medium and large pigs. So what are the reasons for the sudden death of pigs? Let's follow the editor to learn about it.

1. Acute digestive system diseases

Acute peptic systemic disease mainly includes acute gastric ulcer, intestinal bleeding syndrome, clostridium enteritis (porcine red dysentery) and other diseases. In pigs with acute gastric ulcers, the body surface is pale, accompanied by vomiting, and finally dies suddenly. Intestinal bleeding syndrome is difficult to detect. Generally, it occurs in boars or fat pigs at the age of seven or eight months, which is mainly caused by stress response. Clostridium enteritis (porcine red dysentery) mainly occurs in piglets born about a week ago.

2. Respiratory diseases

Respiratory disease mainly refers to acute infectious pleuropneumonia, which can also lead to sudden death in pigs. The characteristic of this disease is that pigs suddenly fall to the ground and die, but before that it also has characteristics, such as shortness of breath and the flow of reddish foamy liquid. Well, when this phenomenon occurs, we have to treat it in time, otherwise the chance of death is very high.

3. Sudden death stress syndrome

In fact, sudden death is very easy to explain, and generally if you die for this reason, there is no sign, so it is the most difficult to deal with. For example, boars are overexcited during mating, which can also lead to sudden death, or excessive shock, overreaction to stress in the process of group transfer and transportation, which are all the causes of sudden death.

4. Classical swine fever blue ear disease

Classical swine fever is an acute and highly contagious disease, which may have died before it has been resolved, as is the case with the hot African swine fever, so the mortality rate of live pigs is extremely high. Blue ear disease is an acute and highly fatal disease caused by a variant of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. When blue ear disease occurs in pigs, there will be a rapid increase in body temperature, conjunctivitis, eyelid edema, cough and asthma, and eventually die suddenly.

In fact, there are many causes of sudden death of pigs, such as swine erysipelas, mycotoxin poisoning, edema disease of piglets, white muscle disease, foot-and-mouth disease of suckling piglets, porcine dysentery, the most acute form of porcine lung disease, and the most acute swine streptococcosis, etc., these diseases can also lead to sudden death of live pigs. Then what we can do is to raise scientifically and strictly carry out daily management and vaccine control in the process of breeding.