What to pay attention to in the nursing of newborn piglets

When raising pigs, the nursing of piglets is particularly important, which affects the overall development of pigs in the middle and later stage. Especially for newborn piglets, it is necessary to strengthen nursing work. If nursing is not appropriate, it will increase the mortality of newborn piglets, thus affecting the efficiency of breeding. And when nursing newborn piglets, there are many things we need to pay attention to. So what should we pay attention to in the nursing of newborn piglets? Let's take a look at it.

1. Piglet vigor

After the birth of piglets, we should pay attention to maintain the vitality of piglets, if the vitality of piglets is too poor, it will increase its morbidity, mortality and so on. Therefore, we should pick out the poor piglets whose birth weight is less than 1.5 jin to ensure the overall vitality of the piglets. During pregnancy, sows should be given adequate nutrition to promote the development of uterine blood vessels. So as to enhance the vitality of piglets and ensure the birth weight. Then to do a good job of delivery, it is very possible to shorten the process of labor. If the labor process is too long, then the piglets are easily suffocated, and their vitality will be affected and become weak.

2. The navel of piglets is severed.

After birth, piglets have to wait for about 5-8 minutes to cut off their navel. It can avoid the hypoxia of piglets, enhance the vitality and physique of piglets, and it is also very beneficial to the growth and development of piglets in the middle and later stage. When breaking the navel, pay attention to control the length, usually keep about 4 centimeters, to ensure that when the piglet stands up, the umbilical cord will not touch the ground. And umbilical cord blood contains a lot of hematopoietic stem cells, which is very critical to the growth of piglets. Therefore, we must pay attention to deal with the umbilical cord to avoid the loss of umbilical cord blood.

3. Pay attention to sow milk

Piglets must drink enough breast milk after birth. Especially when giving birth, we must pay attention to let piglets eat colostrum as soon as possible. Because sow breast milk contains a lot of antibodies, which is very beneficial to the physique of sows. And we should also pay attention to fixing the nipples of sows to ensure that every piglet can eat enough breast milk. In the first three days of the birth of piglets, we should often observe and record the feeding of piglets, so as to adjust the foster care of piglets and formulate the corresponding health care plan. Avoid the phenomenon of insufficient milk or poor milk quality in sows.

4. Prevent cold and keep warm

The suitable temperature for newborn piglets is generally about 35 degrees. If the temperature is too low, it will cause the piglet's body temperature to drop rapidly, and in severe cases, it will drop by 5 degrees. In the heat preservation pigsty, it takes about 3 hours to return to normal body temperature. Therefore, when we deliver the sow, we must do a good job of keeping warm against the cold. Clean the amniotic fluid of piglets in time after birth to avoid pneumonia caused by amniotic fluid entering the lungs. And if it is not wiped dry, it is easy to cause cold and diarrhea in piglets. Within six hours after birth, you must pay close attention to temperature control.

The above is a brief introduction of what newborn piglets should pay attention to. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it can help you all.