Disease and welfare issues of the weaned and growing pig
Abscess
- Faulty injections
- Fighting
- Lameness factors
- Mixing of pigs
- Tail biting
- Trauma
Bursitis
- Badly designed slats
- Foot problems
- Incorrect slat: gap ratio
- Lameness
- Poor floor surfaces
- Trauma
- Weight too heavy for slats
Colitis
Disease
Faulty nutrition
Poor building hygiene
Erysipelas
- Dirty wet conditions in finishing pens
- High exposure in straw based systems
Enteric diseases in growing pigs
- Infections such as those that cause PE, swine dysentery, salmonellosis
- Poor hygiene
- Poor nutrition
- Poor environments
Greasy pig disease - Exudative epidermitis
- Faulty teeth clipping
- High humidity
- High stocking densities
- Infection
- Skin abrasions
Gastric ulcers
- Faulty nutrition
- Feed too finely ground
- Stress
Haematoma and haemorrhage
- Fighting
- Mange
- Trauma from the environment
Lameness
- Fat sprayed diets
- High stocking densities
- Poor nutrition
- Slippery floor surfaces (fat sprayed diets)
- Increasing gap size between slats caused by wearing
Leg weakness (OCD)
- Gilts served too young
- Heavy stocking densities
- Poor floor surfaces
Pneumonia
- House not split into modules
- Permanently populated housing
- Poor management
- Poor environment
- Poor nutrition
- Specific infections
Post-weaning diarrhoea
- Excess feed
- Failure to clean and disinfect between batches
- Fluctuating temperatures
- Poor environment
- Stale feed
Rectal prolapse
- Poor environment
- Poor nutrition
- Respiratory disease
Respiratory disease
- Fluctuating temperatures and humidity
- High stocking densities
- Permanently populated houses
- Poor nutrition
Vice (Abnormal behaviour)
- An unhappy pig
- Poor environment