Disease Problems in Piglets
Condition/Problem and Welfare Failures
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Arthritis
- Joint infections
- Faulty teeth clipping
- Lack of colostrum
- Poor hygiene. Dirty udders
- Rough floors
- Starvation
- Trauma to teeth and tails
- Sore knees from rough concrete surfaces
Atrophic rhinitis
- High humidity
- High levels of dust
Coccidiosis
Diarrhoea
- Wet draughty dirty pens
- Lack of colostrum
- Lack of sow immunity
Greasy pig disease
- Poor pen maintenance
- Poor teeth clipping
- Skin trauma
High mortality
- Badly designed crates
- Cold
- Damp
- Draughts
- Excessive disturbance
- Failure to obtain colostrum
- Lack of supervision in first 24 hours
- Overweight sows
- Poor management
Hypoglycaemia
- Agalactia
- Badly designed crates
- Chilling
- Cold
- Failure to suckle
- Poor management
- Poor teat access
- Slippery floors
- Splay legs
