BPA Workshop - Farm Health Planning for small scale pig keepers

Bob Stevenson Veterinarian

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Maximise health/Minimise disease

What must we prevent? What must we control?

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New / Exotic versus EndemicFoot & MouthSwine FeverSVDTGEAujeszky’sAnthraxBut also for you :

PRRS ?Atrophic Rhinitis?PMWS

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Endemic = Living with. Enzootic “Cough”

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DISEASE DIAGNOSIS CONTROL TREATMENT

ScourCoughLame

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VaccineVaccineVaccine

ANTIBIOTIC

“ISOLATION” FACILITIESFor Purchased pigs in “Quarantine”

For visiting boars/sows

for service

To & from shows

Isolation for “care Pens” for individuals that are sick or injured

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Do we know which “bugs” we are paying for ?

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Why Isolate ?Allows passing of the incubation period

Allows close inspection/attention

Allows “trace back” & “trace forward”

Allows showing with minimum disruption

Allows special treatment

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“Isolation is one thing, Integration is a different ball game”Integrate for 3

weeks

“Natural Exposure”

Vaccination

Boar presence

Sentinel “Nearly

finished pigs”

Pre-emptive parasite removal

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Pig Treatment Plan (example)

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Disease RecommendedTreatment

Doseml/Kg

Length of treatment

Withdrawalperiod

Joint ill amoxycillin 1ml per 10kg

3doses every 48hrs

18days

E.coli scour spectinomycin I pump 2x day

3 days 28days

Joint lameness lincomycin 1ml / 10kg 3 days 48hrs

Milk let down oxytocin 2ml Max per day NIL

Vaccine parvovirus 2ml IM Gilts: 1 dose Nil

Vaccine erysipelas 2ml IM/SC 2 Doses at 4 week intervals

Nil

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Sources for informing your FHP• Veterinarian• Historical Lab reports.• Slaughter house reports• Records of mortality.• Records of disease eg

scour & lameness.• Record of stillbirths.• No. of Casualty Pigs• Medicines Record Book• Genetic defects e.g. blind

teats & ruptures.

• DEFRA Publications• Approved Isolation• SQP & advisers• Salmonella results.• Body condition scores.• VMD “Code of Practice on the

responsible use of animal meds.” www.vmd.gov.uk

• RUMA Guidelines: Pig Vaccines www.ruma.org.uk

• HSE : Veterinary medicines : Safe use by farmers & other animal handlers www.hse.gov.uk

• PVS Casualty Pig booklet6