- Location
- Derbyshire
Weve bought a few weaners a couple of weeks ago and they seem to have a cough. Just wondered if anyone could advise what it could be and why?
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Pigs with a cough
- Thread starter TomO
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Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Simple cure ,,big bottle of Oinkment
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Maybe they have inhaled alot of dust from fresh bedding or the bedding was fusty
Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
pneumonia?
- Location
- Derbyshire
Thanks for the replys. Spoke to the vet today and he says its most likely worms.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Depends on the history of the pigs.
I would always say that it was pneumonia, I have noticed a trend among vets to not 'allow' antibiotics unless the everything has been tested etc, it would require a vet visit after all to jag them with antibiotics.
Worming won't need a vet visit, you might need a note from him to say that you can buy some wormer online, depends on your history.
By the time you have got the wormer, dosed the pigs with it, the cough may have stopped anyway due to the pigs getting better or becoming dead.
Are they really heaving or just a light cough?
I would always say that it was pneumonia, I have noticed a trend among vets to not 'allow' antibiotics unless the everything has been tested etc, it would require a vet visit after all to jag them with antibiotics.
Worming won't need a vet visit, you might need a note from him to say that you can buy some wormer online, depends on your history.
By the time you have got the wormer, dosed the pigs with it, the cough may have stopped anyway due to the pigs getting better or becoming dead.
Are they really heaving or just a light cough?
Fiveospades
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- Location
- Norfolk Broads
Put them on menthol cigarretetes and take away the woodbines
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Are the wheezing or grunting in their sleep
- Location
- Derbyshire
It was a cough like someone trying to clear there throat not puff/pant like i’d associate with pneamonia in cattle. Wormed them yesterday morning and they seem to be not coughing as much... thank for the help everyone.
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Becoming dead, lol
