Transcript Healthy Swine - Wisconsin Show Pig Association

Healthy SwineThe Key to Happiness
For Man and Swine
Eric Fugate- Merck
What we are going to talk about
• Sow Vaccine Protocols
• Piglet Vaccine Protocols
• Ways to prevent or minimize disease
transmission
Sow Vaccine Protocol
• Gilts- Prebreeding
– Magestic 7- PLE Vaccine- 2 doses PB
• 1 and 4 weeks post-entry
– Circumvent- PCV M vaccine- 2 doses
• Weaning and 3 weeks Post-Weaning
– PRRS vaccine – Consult your veterinarian
– Rhinogen BPE- Rhinitis Vaccine
• Week 13 of Gestation
– Excell Platinum- Flu Vaccine
• Flu vaccine timing is variable – Consult your veterinarian
– Safeguard- Dewormer
• De-worm Quarterly – Even in Confinement!
– Tactic- Mange Control
– Feedback – Consult your veterinarian
Disease #1
• Farm purchased new gilts from an unknown
source 3 weeks ago and placed with current herd
• 50% of sows in all stages of gestation have
aborted in the last 2 weeks
• 90% of sows are off feed and lethargic
• Water consumption has dropped 40%
• Live Born on sows that have farrowed has
decreased dramatically over the last week
– Pigs born live are mostly small, low viability pigs
Prefarrow Vaccines
• Prosystem RCE- Rota, Clostridium, E-Coli
– Use Sow Bac CE II for enteric and respiratory
• PRRS Vaccines – Consult your
veterinarian
• Flu Vaccine – Consult your veterinarian
• Feedback – Consult your veterinarian
• Rhinitis Vaccine – Week 13 of Gestation
• PLE Vaccine – Week 5 of Gestation
Piglet Vaccine
Processing
• Clip Tails
• Iron
• Antibiotic - Penicillin, Excede, Draxxin
– Differences in spectrum and length of activity
as well as cost
• Castrate
Vaccines- Postweaning
• Circumvent PCV M- 2 doses @ weaning
and 3 weeks later
• Ileitis and Erysipelas – Oral Vaccines
• Flu Vaccine – Commercial or Autogenous
• Other possibilities- HPS, Strep, PRRS,
Salmonella
• Safeguard- deworming
Directions & Dosage
• Warm vaccine to room temperature
• Proper needle size
– Baby pigs: 18 or 20 gauge, 5/8” or ½”
– Nursery pigs: 16 or 18 gauge, 3/4” or 5/8”
• Injection site: Neck
• Route: Intramuscular (IM)
Disease #2
• Several growing pigs that appear healthy
have been found dead
• Several live pigs have diamond shaped
skin lesions similar to the ones seen below
Minimize Disease Transfer
• Isolation is always the best prevention– May not be possible in the real world
• Minimize nose to nose transfer- Real
World PRRS train wreck
• An ounce of prevention is worth a
thousand dollars worth of cure….
Treatment of Disease
• Sows/Boars
– Pneumonia
• Draxxin
• Excede
• Excenel
• Penicillin
– Diarrhea
• Tylan
• Linco
– Lameness
• Linco
– Mastitis
• Penicillin
• Predef
• Growing pigs
– Pneumonia
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Draxxin
Excede
Excenel
Penicillin
– Diarrhea
• Tylan
• Linco
– Lameness
• Excede
• Linco
– Strep
• Penicillin
• Excede
Always mark treated pigs and observe withdrawal times!
Disease #4
• Pigs approximately 15 weeks old show
signs of decreased weight gain and have
developed watery diffuse diarrhea
– Feed consumption has not decreased