Snok
Exploring the pasture
One of my pigs cannot eat very well and is displaying symptoms of anorexia. She cannot open her jaw well and every time she is prompted to eat she has to give up due to seemingly not being able to breathe. She sometimes starts coughing after attempting also. After feeding her, food tends to dribble out of her nose and mouth. She has a gait to her walk and seems to be struggling. She prefers not to walk and we have been feeding her to plantains, corn, watery feed, eggs and papaya as it is the only food she will eat. But we are still experimenting with what other foods we can give her to expand her diet. She used to eat the same food as the other pigs but recently she refused to.
As an estimate I would say the symptoms started 10 days ago.
There are unfortunately loose rusty nails in the sty, we have continuously removed them but they tend to get buried then un-burried. I thought she might of stepped on one of these and due to the mud in the enclosure the wound would most likely have little air and oxygen.
She is fairly skinny, as seen in images attached. She is from a litter of around 8 but always had stunted growth alongside a couple others. I’d say she is less than half the size of some of the largest members of the litter. No other pigs are sharing symptoms and all are relatively healthy.
All our male pigs are castrated. The pen itself is rocky with dirt, some mud and some watery mudbaths, we have tried to fill up the mud many times but it just keep becoming waterlogged. The pen doesn’t have many plants but was very green at the start and there are plenty of roots keeping the ground together. It is overall very solid but there are some soft patches. She is only sharing the pen with one other pig and there is no fighting between the two at all.
Their house is cleaned daily but there is no bedding as they have never seemed to need it and we do not have much. They are fed two times a day, at 6am and at around 2pm. This consists of leftovers and scraps (nothing known to be harmful to pigs, very strict about this) and also corn and watery feed when needed.
I live in a tropical climate with a range of humidity from 55% to 94%. Temperature ranges from 23-32.7 C. It rains very often and the pigs move inside of their house when it does.
Our animals have had issues of parasites such as botflies, ticks and worms. But I checked her and she did not have any of these issues. She has also been dewormed in the past.
Her faeces are very hard and grey, but they look normal - a bit pellet like if that makes sense. I could not break them with direct spraying of a pressure hose but could with a rock.
I have checked her feet but I cannot see any wounds nor discoloured areas or swelling. But if it was a puncture wound from a nail it could be well hidden.
We have just received shots for tetanus, alongside anti-inflammatories and penicillin. We plan on injecting her today.
Vet is unfortunately not available.
Video of her walking:
As an estimate I would say the symptoms started 10 days ago.
There are unfortunately loose rusty nails in the sty, we have continuously removed them but they tend to get buried then un-burried. I thought she might of stepped on one of these and due to the mud in the enclosure the wound would most likely have little air and oxygen.
She is fairly skinny, as seen in images attached. She is from a litter of around 8 but always had stunted growth alongside a couple others. I’d say she is less than half the size of some of the largest members of the litter. No other pigs are sharing symptoms and all are relatively healthy.
All our male pigs are castrated. The pen itself is rocky with dirt, some mud and some watery mudbaths, we have tried to fill up the mud many times but it just keep becoming waterlogged. The pen doesn’t have many plants but was very green at the start and there are plenty of roots keeping the ground together. It is overall very solid but there are some soft patches. She is only sharing the pen with one other pig and there is no fighting between the two at all.
Their house is cleaned daily but there is no bedding as they have never seemed to need it and we do not have much. They are fed two times a day, at 6am and at around 2pm. This consists of leftovers and scraps (nothing known to be harmful to pigs, very strict about this) and also corn and watery feed when needed.
I live in a tropical climate with a range of humidity from 55% to 94%. Temperature ranges from 23-32.7 C. It rains very often and the pigs move inside of their house when it does.
Our animals have had issues of parasites such as botflies, ticks and worms. But I checked her and she did not have any of these issues. She has also been dewormed in the past.
Her faeces are very hard and grey, but they look normal - a bit pellet like if that makes sense. I could not break them with direct spraying of a pressure hose but could with a rock.
I have checked her feet but I cannot see any wounds nor discoloured areas or swelling. But if it was a puncture wound from a nail it could be well hidden.
We have just received shots for tetanus, alongside anti-inflammatories and penicillin. We plan on injecting her today.
Vet is unfortunately not available.
Video of her walking:
