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Pet pigs Flashcards

The basics

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What legal documentation do you need for pet pig keeping?

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  • Must have a county parish holding (CPH) number from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA)
    Inform Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) that there are pigs on the premises within 30 days of first pig arriving
  • Issued a herd mark
    – 1 or 2 letters followed by 4 digits
  • Pigs must be identifiable, especially if they are being moved
    – tag/tattoo/mark
  • Licence from APHA to walk pig outside of home/premises
    – must be approved by APHA
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Equipment for handling

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  • pig boards
  • gates
  • crushes
  • snare
  • food orientated
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Types of restraint

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  • chemical
  • weight crates
  • towels/blankets/duvets
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Points for CE from a distance

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  • Stand and walk with straight or slight dorsal curve to spine
  • Respiratory pattern
    – even and without effort
  • Abdomen
    – full but not distended
  • Body contour
    – smooth, no lumps or bumps
  • Perineum
    – clean, no discharge
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What does excessive hunching of the back indicate?

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  • lameness or skeletal or abdominal pain
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What does a gaunt or tucked up abdomen indicate?

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  • anorexia
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Normal temperature (adult & growing pig)

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  • Adult 38.0–39.0C
  • Growing pig 39.0–40.0C
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Normal resp rate (adult & growing pig)

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  • Adults 10–20bpm
  • Grower 24–36bpm
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Normal heart rate (adult & growing pig)

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  • Adults 60–90bpm
  • Grower 100–120bpm
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Causes of pyrexia

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  • infectious disease eg Erysipelas
  • Heat Stroke
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Causes of hypothermia

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  • Terminally ill
  • Renal or hepatic failure
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Mucus membranes: where are they? colour? crt? peripheral perfusion?)

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  • Oral (only when sedated) vuvla, ocular
  • Pale pink and moist
  • CRT <2seconds
  • Peripheric perfusion: distal extremity temperature – ears, feet and legs
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Causes of colour changes to the mm

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  • toxaemia
  • cyanosis
  • jaundice
  • anaemia
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How can septicaemia appear on the mm?

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  • petechial haemorrhage
  • +/- injected scleral blood vessels
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Points to look for on the skin

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  • lumps
  • bumps
  • bite marks
  • wounds
  • lice
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Causes of jaundice

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  • post weaning multi systemic syndrome
  • hepatic cirrhosis
  • leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae
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CS of mites

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  • pruritus
  • erythema
  • thickened & crusty ski n
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CS of resp dz

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  • coughing
  • sneezing
  • breathing difficulty
  • open mouth breathing
19
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Normal breathing

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  • quiet breath sounds
20
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Abnormal breathing sounds

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  • crackles and wheezes
21
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What do increased lung sounds ventrally indicate?

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  • bronchopneumonia
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What do increased lung sounds dorsally indicate?

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  • pleural effusion
23
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What can cause a pig to open mouth breathe?

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  • severe pneumonia
  • porcine stress syndrome
24
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How to tell a pig is in resp distress

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  • exaggerated chest wall movements
25
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Respiratory conditions in pigs

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  • atrophic rhinitis
  • swine influenza
  • pneumonia
26
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Atrophic rhinitis: causative agent

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  • Bordetella bronchiseptica
  • Pasteurella
27
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Atrophic rhinitis: contagious?

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  • yes, contagious spread
28
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Atrophic rhinitis: CS

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  • sneezing
  • bloody nose
  • distortion of nose
  • epistaxis
29
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Atrophic rhinitis: control

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  • vaccination
30
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Atrophic rhinitis: tx

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  • AB
  • increase humidity
  • NSAIDs
31
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Swine influenza: zoonotic?

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  • yes
32
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Swine influenza: spread

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  • pig to pig contact
  • can be fatal
33
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Swine influenza: control

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  • biosecurity, esp after shows
34
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Pneumonia: causative agents

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  • Mycoplasma
  • Pasteurella
  • Actinobacillus (carrier status with no CS)
35
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Pneumonia: CS

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  • coughing
  • lethargy
  • pyrexia
  • difficulty breathing
  • sudden death
  • chronic lung damage
36
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Pneumonia: tx

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  • AB
37
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Pneumonia: control

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  • vaccine available
38
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Normal faecal consistency

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  • formed & clumped
39
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What do clumped and dark faeces indicate?

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  • dehydration
40
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What do dark black faeces indicate?

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  • melena
41
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What do watery faeces indicate?

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  • infectious enteritis/colitis
42
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What do scant faeces indicate?

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  • intestinal obstruction
43
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Common GI conditions

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  • congenital atresia
  • rectal prolapse
  • obstruction
  • entrapment
  • volvulus
  • gastroenteritis
  • E.coli/colibacillosis
  • Salmonella/enterocolitis
  • constipation
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