Piggery/swine farming hub

29/09/2020

Vaccinating piglets and sows

01/09/2020

Pig Vaccination Schedule

25/08/2020

Are you seeing your pigs getting wasted or getting thin as if they are not getting good quality feeds, piglets having respiratory distress, sometimes with red skin rushes or even pregnant sows aborting. Most probably you are having Porcine circovirus on your farm. In Uganda for every 100 pigs, 50 pigs have this disease (study done in Masaka and Lira https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001706X18306892). The virus impairs the immune system and leaves the pigs very susceptible to other diseases. Affected pigs may experience increased mortality, poor growth and weight loss, progressing to the level of severe thinning, weakness, and you will keep them longer on the farm before taking them to the market.
The virus can be spread from pig to pig, peoples clothing, equipments, introduction of infected pigs, the virus is shed in urine, faeces and saliva within 1 day of infection and in semen from 5 days post infection. That’s why it’s important to get a boar or stock from farms that vaccinate against this disease which is already a practice by large swine commercial farms in Uganda.
How to prevent the disease
Source pigs from healthy farms-those that vaccinate and with good biosecurity measures.
Vaccination of piglets three weeks old and above;
Give two 2mls to piglets three weeks old and above. Vaccines i.e. FOSTERA PCV 2 an inactivated vaccine is available at Eram Uganda ltd, Contact 0787980366 and Vet line services Ltd. Contact 0752974737
Enforce all other biosecurity measures on the farm.
Treatment.
No treatment- Just protect your pigs through Vaccination

18/08/2020

17/08/2020

https://youtu.be/9tUMQnTpunE

Less then 2 days old and queeny has turned out to be a terrific momma with her first litter ever of 13 piglets.

17/08/2020

Protect your assets . Vaccinate yours pigs against reproductive failiures , wasting , piglet diarrhea and other respiratory illness. Vaccines now available.Contact Vetline services Ltd or Eram Uganda Ltd