Title: Piglet diarrheas: a common problem explained | WATTAgNet
Headings: Piglet diarrheas: A common problem explained
Piglet diarrheas: A common problem explained
Scours are the most common health concern of piglets, and understanding the factors involved will help producers prevent outbreaks.
Digestive upset
Health and production effects
Types of scouring
Peak times
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Treatment
Prevention
What causes secretory or nutritional diarrheas in piglets?
Conclusions
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Content: Ensuring adequate intake of colostrum is important in preventing scours. | Stewairns, Dreamstime.com
The option to move or segregate litters as well as putting piglets in a sickbay can help to reduce the spread of scours. Fostering of piglets from sows with large litters or not enough milk will prevent them becoming too weak. Using an E. coli vaccination before farrowing is a sensible consideration, particularly if there has been a problem in the past. Prevention
Antibodies from the sow in the form of colostrum are important in preventing scours. Therefore, ensuring that all piglets are suckling well in the first three days of life is very important. This is dependent on both the health of the sow and her piglets. Weak or small piglets may not have the energy to suck or there may not be enough viable teats for the whole litter. Piglets born to sows that aren’t producing enough milk (agalactia) are also at high risk. Other conditions that predispose piglets to scouring include anemia and pneumonia.