E4»unc«tter Farming, Saturday, November 5, 1988
PRV Update y Piglet Diseases
(Continued from Page E 2)
another piglet disease moving into
Pennsylvania. Caused by a bacteri
a, it occurs in acute and chronic
forms and usually gains a foothold
within the first week of life.
In the acute form, the disease
produces diarrhea and the baby
pigs excrete blood very early. As
the disease progress the farmer
may see the buttocks smeared with
bipod or a tar-like substance.
Conversely, “The farmer may
even find pigs dead in the litter and
they may not have shown any
signs,” said Ingalls.
The disease’s chronic form is
the harder of the two to diagnose. It
strikes at about one or two weeks
of age. The piglet begins to lose
condition, becomes unthrifty, and
its hair gets rough. It may not ever
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get diarrhea. In addition, it could
strike only one or two pigs in the
litter, causing the farmer to believe
th|eir deaths resulted from
starvation.
jHere again, as in the coccidiosis,
prevention is the best treatment
Putting sows on a vaccination
program is a good idea so that the
piglets can receive antibodies
through the colostrum immediate
ly! Ingalls suggests putting them
on antibiotics about two weeks
before farrowing.
jPiglets should receive an anti
toxin after farrowing and be put on
creep feed with antibiotics.
On rare occasions Clostridium
Prefinges infects older pigs. Some
times sudden death will occur, but
usually the animals develop a
chronic condition.
Reproduction Problems
The last disease that Ingalls dis
cussed that affects piglets was
Mastitis Metritis Agalactiae
(MMA), which causes a lack of
milk in the sow. There is no one
common cause for the condition.
Rather it can be one or a combina
tion of: endocrine disturbance,
genetics, infection, environmental
stress, dietary deficiencies, inges
tion of mold toxins, and
constipation.
A preventative program would
include measures such as good
sanitation, proper bedding, good
genetic resistance, anti-infectives,
and vaccines.
Transmissible Gastroenteritis
Transmissible Gastroenteritis,
or TGE, was the topic discussed by
Craig Pfeifer, D.V.M., from Min
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types of hog units, including con-
finement or outdoor facilities, it is first few days, whereas the chronic
worse in confinement units form strikes piglets that are about
because of the cycling that takes three to four weeks old.
place on this type of operation. “Immunity begins with the colo-
TGE is caused by a virus that \ strum,” said Pficfer. “Also with
can be destroyed by detergent, milk that contain antibodies from
heat, drying, and sunlight. It vaccinated or exposed sows.” Far
spreads from pig to pig through mers can help prevent TGE also by
fecal matter as well as orally. Diar- vaccinating the piglets within two
rhea occurs within 18 to 30 hours to three days.
after exposure. Vomiting and Through work he has done,
severe dehydration follow as the Pficfer finds that a killed vaccine is
disease progresses. more effective than the modified
The acute form occurs in the live vaccine.
Voluntary Restraints Keep Meat
Imports Below 1988 Trigger
requir “ f sident b to rc S
. unports of ccrtum incdts beef
Z^ qUOtaS °' veff mutton and goat - i?S
, U.S. Department’ of Agriculture
milHnn rwi 1,525 j 4 estimates that annual imports will
mdhon pound*-100,000 pounds or exceed a trigger level set
below the level that would require at beginning of each calendar
qU j TI tA C. T* l ® trigger level, determined
Lyng said that the United States b y formula in the Act, is 1,525.5
will not have to impose restnc- million pounds for 1988.
hons because Australia and New n* trigger level and first quar-
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of imported meals, have voluntari- announced on or about January 1,
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