Sows are the "cash cow" of our pig farms, and if we want to ensure the economic benefits of pig farms, we must do a good job in the management of sows. Sows spend 80% of their lifetime pregnant and lactated, and postpartum diseases in sows can seriously jeopardize the productivity of sows. What are the common diseases of sows after childbirth? How do we treat it?
1. Sows do not eat after childbirth
A common disease of sows is not eating after childbirth, and the reasons are also multifaceted. It can be roughly divided into: a. Insufficient qi and blood, and incomplete congestion. b. Nutritional disorders. c. Postpartum fatigue, reproductive system damage, etc. Also important to us is the death caused by the aftermath of sow infection.
Treatment regimen: 8 million units of penicillin, 4 million units of streptomycin, mixed with 20 ml of metamizole or 20 ml of compound houttuynia cordata injection for one intramuscular injection, 2 times a day for 2-3 days.
2. Sows have no milk and little milk after childbirth:
Solving the problem of sow milking is to start from the feeding aspect, improve feeding management, during which breastfeeding can be fed to stimulate the sow mammary glands and restore lactation function.
Treatment plan: Can be used Chinese herbal formula: Angelica, Wang Bu Liu Xing, Leaky Lu, Tong Cao 30 grams each, boiled, mixed with bran to feed. Use once daily for 3 days. Intramuscular oxytocin 20 to 30 units may also be administered 1 to 2 times a day. Crucian carp can also be cooked and fed to sows. All have a prolactin effect.
3. Postpartum constipation in sows
Treatment plan: (1) add green feeding; (2) increase the amount of water and add artificial rehydration salt; (3) glucose saline 500 to 1000 ml, vitamin C 10 ml 3 sticks, one intravenous injection; (4) multivitamin B1 5 ml, penicillin 2.4 million units, angustin 30 ml, respectively intramuscular injection; (5) yeast, rhubarb soda tablets, multi-enzyme tablets, lactase raw 40 tablets each, a total of fine powder, divided into 4 times to the mother for internal use; (6) daily feeding of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) 25 grams, drinking water feeding, Feed in 2 to 3 divided doses.
4. The sow's uterus comes out after childbirth
Treatment plan: When the uterus is incompletely prolapsed, 0.1% potassium permanganate or 500 to 1000 ml of normal saline can be injected into the maternal uterine cavity, and the uterus can be restored with the pressure of liquid.
In people with total uterine loss, wash the stool on the mucous membrane with 0.1% potassium permanganate or 1% table salt water. The uterine horns are pushed into the uterine body sequentially, and the uterine body is pushed into the pelvic cavity and abdominal cavity at the same time. After the finishing, the vaginal door is stitched with a thick silk thread for 2 stitches to prevent further detachment. Anesthesia is given if necessary. Antibacterial drugs are injected after rejuvenation and anti-inflammatory.
5. Postpartum inflammation in sows — endometritis
Acute endometritis is more common in the postpartum or post-abortion period, with symptoms: increased body temperature, decreased appetite or inability to eat, lack of energy, vaginal discharge of odorous dirt. Chronic endometritis is not transformed from acute treatment in time, the symptoms are not obvious, mostly manifested as infertility, accompanied by a small amount of cloudy mucus excreted from the vagina.
Treatment plan: injection: inject 10 mg of powerful amoxicillin per kilogram of body weight, once a day, for 2 to 3 days, other antibiotics such as cephalosporin, enrofloxacin, lincomycin and other antibiotics can be used.
Uterine irrigation: you can choose to flush the uterus with normal saline, 0.2% neogel, 1% sodium bicarbonate solution, 0.1% potassium permanganate solution, etc., but after irrigation, you should inject 200,000 to 400,000 units of posterior pituitary hormone in time to promote the discharge of inflammatory secretions in the uterus, and then dilute 2 million units of penicillin or 4 powerful amoxicillin with 20 to 40 ml of injected water, inject into the uterus, or put in 10 pieces of oxytetracycline. Uterine irrigation is contraindicated in the presence of systemic infection.
6. Postpartum inflammation of sows — mastitis
Clinical manifestations are: breast flushing, swelling, fever, hard lumps, refusal to breastfeed piglets.
Treatment plan: Isolate the piglets, squeeze out the milk in the diseased mammary glands, and rub the skin of the affected breast with 10% fish stone ointment, 10% camphor ointment, and 10% iodine tincture.
7. Sow postpartum paralysis:
Fresh livestock and poultry bones are dried and crushed and fed 30g per head per day. In severe cases, 5% to 10 calcium chloride injection 40 to 80 ml intravenously. It is also possible to apply a highly highly graded liquor and perform an artificial massage. Grass can be added to the daily feed, which also has a good effect on preventing sow paralysis.