Healthy Swine-The 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 VaccineProcessing

• 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

• 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