Why should we care for sows? How should we do postpartum care for sows
Sow farrowing is a complex and extremely important stage in the reproduction and production process. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in postpartum care, prevent and treat the occurrence of diseases, and improve the quality of sows. overall production performance.
1. Postpartum care should be strengthened, and attention should be paid to the sow's breathing, body temperature, mental status, and behavioral changes to prevent accidents.
2. During sows’ delivery, midwifery and postpartum processes, superficial injuries to the reproductive tract and microbial infections often occur, or the mother’s body cannot adapt to the dramatic changes in delivery, resulting in postpartum physiological process disorders, and various diseases are prone to occur. Postpartum illness. Therefore, sows should be intramuscularly injected with penicillin every day for 3 days after delivery to prevent microbial infection in the reproductive tract. Sows with obvious symptoms of dystocia or birth canal damage should be treated with antibiotics continuously until they recover. In addition, attention should also be paid to For the conditioning of sows, daily feeding adds vitality to the sows.
3. Carefully observe the discharge of the afterbirth and lochia. Sows with good or poor fatness, primiparous or old sows sometimes suffer from lack of productivity, resulting in difficulty in discharge of the afterbirth, retention of afterbirth fragments, and sporadic discharge of lochia. It is advisable to inject oxytocin ~ ml.
4. Although dystocia in multiparous sows is not very common, primiparous sows that are bred too early and have imperfect physical maturity are prone to birth canal dystocia due to their narrow pelvis. If it is really difficult to give birth naturally, you should ask a veterinarian to inject oxytocin. If it still doesn't work, you should remove it or perform surgery.
5. Feed the sow some skin soup within 3 days after giving birth, and add sow life element care.
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Why do we need to care for sows? How to do postpartum care for sows?