Swine Notes Flashcards
Viral disease that is highly contagious. Hogs will have a high fever, lose their appetite, become weak, and drink much water.
Hog cholera
Affects the reproductive tract of the female causing young to be aborted
Bangs or brucellosis
Bacterial disease. High fever, poor appetite, bloody urine, females will abort their fetuses.
Leptospirosis
Viral disease attaching swine. Adults may serve as unaffected carriers. Piglets usually show clinical signs. Fever, paralysis, coma, and death.
Pseudorabies
Bloody scours is a type of diarrhea caused by treponema hyodysenteriae. Usually found in young pigs loss of appetite, soft feces, and a slight fever
Swine dysentery
Produce large numbers of young
Prolific
Baby pig
Piglet
Male castrated at a young age
Barrow
Young female that has not farrowed
Gilt
Older female
Sow
Male hog
Boar
Male hog
Boar
Lard type and bacon type hogs declined in use
Meat type hog
Select an animal that is close to ideal as possible
Type
Record of an individual heredity
Pedigree
Tool for measuring thickness of backfat
Probe
Use burst of high frequency sounds
Ultrasonic
Nonpathological disorder in heavily muscled animals that results in sudden death loss
Porcine stress syndrome PSS
Pigs are free of disease at birth
Specific pathogen free SPF
Pig weighing about 40lbs and has just been weaned.
Feeder pig
Mostly hogs are marketed for slaughter 220 to 240lbs
Finishing
Involves a contract between a producer and a buyer before hogs are raised
Contract production
Giving birth to pigs
Farrowing
Pigs are born having 8…
Needle teeth
