Injecting, what’s the theory?
Most vaccinations in piglets are administered intramuscularly in the neck, behind the ear.
Give all the piglets the same opportunity:
Secure colostrum-intake for all
Combine different interventions
Iron supplementation from day 3 or later
Preventative pain treatment = not only for male piglets
Apply pain-relieving/ anti-inflammatory medication with a broad spectrum of activity for docked tails or arthritis
Sucking pigs have an irrepressible desire to live. However, painful events may have a negative impact on the further development of pigs by:
Lowering milk-intake
Restricting self-preservation instinct (reflex to flee)
Early and excessive iron supplementation can negatively influence health
Piglets are born with minimal iron-reserves (40 mg). This low iron concentration is a natural defence mechanism directed at combatting bacterial infections during and after birth.
Sow milk provides piglets with about 1 mg Iron/day. With a daily need of about 7 mg there is only sufficient iron for about 4 to 5 days.
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) introduces the 3FLEX® 50 Doses HSB (head space bottle) vaccine for swine veterinarians and producers to control three of the most common respiratory diseases in pigs: porcine circovirus, "Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae" and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
Pain is a sensory and emotional experience that has negative effects on animal welfare, directly affecting farm production items. There are many reasons why pigs can suffer from pain: routine farm management, such as tail-docking and castration, diseases, injuries and physiological events such as farrowing. Nowadays, pain measurement in farm animals is very complex, and it continues to be an important issue in veterinary and biomedical research.
In the case of prolonged farrowings, it may be beneficial to massage the abdomen of the sow.
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