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If you have a question you would,
like to have answered by Jfae team
of veterinarians at Valley Animal
Hospital,'Palmyra, and Dr. Tim
Trayer, Denver, send it to “Ask the
VMD”, Lancaster Farming
Newspaper, Bon 366, Utitz,, PA
17543. Questions will be kept
anonymous on request.
Wood Product Problems_
A reader asks:
1 would like to use wood shavings
as bedding for my animals. Is
there any risk Involved with using
wood products.
Dr. Trayer comments:
In the past, the answer to this
question was that sawdust or wood
■tavings, used as bedding for
Either transportation or farrowing,
was one of the better products
available.
However, since our knowledge is
always expanding, the practice of
using wood shavings in the
farrowing room or when trucking
swme has recently come into
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question as a potential disease
carrier.
In the farrowing room situation
or where you have sows that are
lactating or delivering, the
problem has arisen of the isolation
of gram negative organisms from
the sawdust bedding. These
particular organisms can cause
the whole MMA ' syndrome
(mastitis metritius agalactica
syndrome) or lack of milk in the
sows and can also cause uterine
discharges which are very
unresponsive to treatment. They
will probably require culturing to
identify a specific antibodic sen
sitivity. Uterine discharge causes
the sows to be predisposed to the
MMA syndrome.
This particular gram negative
organism was being identified as
Kleb siella. This particular
organism is a bacteria classified
according to its sensitivity to
antiseptics. Kleb siella has a
ruthless nature to it. It appears to
be in all species, and causes
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an overwhelming infection is
present.
In the dairy industry, it has been
known for a long period of tune
that sawdust or wood products
cause the Kelb siella mastitis
which is a particularly hard
mastitis to work against.
So it is not surprising to see that,
with this latest information,
similar problems with wood
product-like organisms could exist
in the swine industry, or par
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the use of wood product bedding.
The other side of the coin con
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hauling of feeder pigs has been a
recent case situation in the Mid
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■producer who was driven out of
production because of the in
creasing number of TB-like lesions
being found on his slaughter
animals.
In this particular case the only
thing that could be identified as the
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source of the TB-like lesions was
the exposure in the farrowing room
to wood products. Breeding stock
could not be identified as the
source of TB. So by using a process
of elimination, they determined
the wood shavings to be the only
source potential for the TB-like
lesions on the slaughtered swine.
As in the past, our knowledge of
the origins, sources, and in
cidences of TB in swine is still very
wide open, as is our knowledge
concerning the subject and exactly
how it is entering into the herd.
The slaughtering of the animals
and the identification of positive
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PARK RIDGE, 111. - Robert B.
Delano, president of the three
million member-family American
Farm Bureau Federation will go to
France. September 9-11 as a
member of the executive com
mittee of the International
Federation of Agricultural
Producers.
The three-day session in
Strasbourg in eastern France near
the West Germany border will be
the 89th held by the executive
committee and will be chaired by
Sir Henry Plumb of the United
Kingdom, IFAP president.
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animals is still a great economic
expense to different producers,
and is one area of great concern in
the swine industry.
So if one is using wood products
as bedding or in the transportation
of young feeding stock, producers
ought to seriously consider some of
the problems or questions being
raised about these products. If one
has not experienced any farrowing
problems or TB problems at
slaughter, then the wood products
being utilized ate suitable. Be
aware, however, that potential
problems do exist.
“free world" farmer associations
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somewhat analogous to Farm
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The 16-member executive
committee-to which Delano was
elected at the 24th general con
ference in Argentina last
November-will review the world’s
agricultural supply, demand,
economic and trade situations arid
make preliminary arrangements
for the 25th IFAP general con
ference slated for London in the
spring of 1982.
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