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    The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases
    The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases
    The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases
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    The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases

    By Norman Barron

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    “The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book” is a complete and comprehensive handbook on the various illnesses and ailments that are commonly found in pigs. It provides detailed information on how to spot and diagnose them, as well as how they should be treated and ultimately avoided. This classic guide contains a wealth of information that will be of utility to modern farmers and keepers, and it would make for a useful addition to allied collections. Contents include: “Prevention The Best Cure”, “Pigs Must Be Warm And Dry”, “General Signs Of Health And Disease”, “Your First Aim—Large And Healthy Litters”, “After-Farrowing Troubles”, “Diseases And Disorders Due To Feeding”, “Diseases Due To Parasites”, “Some Respiratory, Virus And Bacterial Infections”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on pig farming.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateOct 21, 2011
    ISBN9781447492993
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      The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases - Norman Barron

      THE

      PIG FARMER’S VETERINARY

      BOOK

      A complete guide to the farm treatment

      and control of pig diseases

      By

      NORMAN BARRON, M.R.C.V.S., Ph.D.

      Veterinary Lecturer at Reading University

      1952

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Anatomy of a sow

      Three improvised pig houses

      Pigs in semi-covered yards

      Straw huts for sows and gilts

      Straw-packed walls for warmth

      False low roof in pig house

      Maximum and minimum thermometer

      Plan for modern pighouse

      Three methods of insulating floors

      Warming up an Anderson shelter

      Wrong type of pighouse and sty

      Modern pig parlour

      Simple shelters for baby pigs

      How to catch a young pig

      Restraining a grown pig

      Method of penning young pigs

      Restraining a difficult pig

      Using wooden gag to give medicine

      Casting a pig

      Graph of female sex cycle

      Serving crate

      Sows and litters on grass

      Creep feeding with self feeder

      Concrete serving ramp

      Washing a sow before farrowing

      Wooden farrowing crate

      Modern farrowing pen

      Plan of pig nursery to prevent losses

      Infra-red lamps in farrowing pen

      A contented sow and litter

      Artificial foster mother

      Method of castration

      Clipping a piglet’s teeth

      Dosing a baby pig with iron solution

      Pig suffering from vitamin D deficiency

      A case of pig oedema

      The common pig worm—life cycle

      The lung worm of the pig—life cycle

      Bowel and stomach changes through necrotic enteritis

      Pigs affected with necrotic enteritis

      Round worms

      Portion of bowel blocked with round worms

      Erysipelas infection of the heart

      Foul-in-the-foot

      Soft floor conditions result in over-grown hooves

      Laburnum

      Thornapple

      Yew

      Garden nightshade

      Deadly nightshade

      Woody nightshade

      Foxglove

      Hemlock

      Monkshood

      Buttercup

      Horse-tail

      Water dropwort

      FOREWORD

      By SIR JAMES TURNER

      President of the National Farmers’ Union

      of England and Wales

      THE best hope we have for producing more meat’in the immediate future lies in pig production. It is therefore important that pig-keepers should produce this meat in as great a quantity and as economically as possible. One big step towards this economy would be to cut down substantially the losses now suffered by farmers as a result of pig diseases.

      The fact that the pig population is already high makes the need to keep disease under control more urgent, and for this reason this book by a veterinary expert is to be welcomed as a timely production.

      If it helps to bring about a high standard of health in pig herds, and produce more bacon and pork, it will not only be of practical value to producers, but also perform a service which all interested in home food production will appreciate.

      45, Bedford Square,

      London, W.C. I

      AUTHOR’S PREFACE

      THE losses which the pig industry suffers today are far too heavy. These are due to a number of factors, not the least of which is our relative ignorance of the environmental conditions necessary for full health and maximum growth. What knowledge and experience we have appears to be possessed by all too few. Perhaps this book will help to remedy this defect to some extent.

      It is not meant to replace the veterinary surgeon on the farm, as of course in the control of any disease, a proper diagnosis is the first essential. Clinical symptoms may be confusing and faulty treatment may be introduced if this is not correct, but an understanding of the possibilities regarding treatment, should encourage help to be sought with greater confidence. Emphasis throughout the book, however, is upon the environmental conditions which play so vital a part in connection with keeping an animal so artificially reared as the pig usually is.

      Many chance remarks by pigmen and farmers, together with the assistance of my veterinary colleagues, have proved invaluable in enabling me to compile this book and to all these, I would like to express my thanks.

      N. S. BARRON,

      Reading University

      CHAPTER I

      PREVENTION THE BEST CURE

      PERHAPS at no time in the history of this country have pigs been so important as they are now. At this date of publication (1952) we have in Great Britain a record population of pigs—more than have been recorded in any previous year. They represent the best chance we have of increasing the nation’s meat supplies quickly.

      Success will depend largely upon proper management of these pigs. It is not only essential that they should be fed as cheaply as possible but also that they should be kept in good health so that preventable losses (and most of them are preventable) are reduced to a minimum.

      In the pages that follow we shall consider how this latter aim in particular can be achieved.

      COST OF DISEASE

      The cost of disease in livestock is considerable. It is said to cost farmers in England and Wales alone over £1,000,000 every week.

      Its cost to pig-keepers is very heavy. Not only is there the loss, very often, of the animals, but there is loss of time and labour, and food that could be better spent on healthy stock. Statistical surveys have shown that of all the pigs bred in this country, some 30 per cent. die before they reach marketing age.

      To lose one pig out of every three born is a severe handicap to profitable pig-keeping. Yet most of this loss can be prevented. It is a matter of good management.

      Pigs, given access to what they need and would get under natural conditions, seldom fail to thrive. Such things as proper feeding, warmth and shelter are as essential to pigs as they are to us.

      Attention to details is the mark of a good herdsman. Some farmers say that a herdsman is born and not made, but it is not true; the necessary details of management can be learnt by a keen man.

      To those who seek to make pig-keeping their livelihood or a profitable sideline, or to take charge of herds, this book is primarily addressed, and my first lesson is a simple one. It is that it is far better to prevent disease than to cure it.

      FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE

      This is where your skilled herdsman comes in. When feeding pigs his first thought is to see all of them are eating heartily and none lying in a corner or under the straw. He is alert for the first sign of trouble. Measures taken then are likely to be the least costly and the most effective.

      He will follow certain basic rules that are common to all successful pig-keepers. He will be careful neither to feed too much nor too little, both of which can cause loss. He will adjust his feeding to weather conditions and to the different individual requirements of his pigs. In brief, he makes a thorough study of his job.

      All these management details, followed as a matter of course by the skilled man, help to prevent the unthriftiness and low condition of health which lead inevitably to some form of disease and often to inexplicable deaths and serious loss in a herd.

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