The newly born piglet has two pairs of canine teeth and two pairs of molars, brownish black and tapering. Based on the following considerations, some farms conducted toothpicking on newborn pigs.
1. Piglets bite into the cheeks with canine teeth while fighting for nipples. Once infected with bacteria, they will affect their milk consumption, and some may even cause eye blinking and lose their usefulness.
2. When the pigs compete for nipples, sharp canine teeth will bite the sow's nipples or breasts, causing inflammation of the breasts and pain in the sows, refusing to breastfeed, and seriously affecting the growth and development of the piglets.
3. Sows often lay up due to pain and step on the pigs.
4. Pigs are prone to biting and biting of the ear during conservation and fattening, which seriously affects breeding.
5. Some adult swine scabs are often bitten by fangs.
In order to ensure the normal lactation of sows and the healthy growth of pigs and the normal growth of finishing pigs, the farm often cuts the canine teeth of suckling pigs. However, in recent years, due to the introduction of advanced foreign farming techniques, some farmers believe that two pairs of canine teeth and two pairs of dental caries are fine, and the pigs need to rely on these teeth to help the tip of the nipples wrapped around the nipples. Milk, at the same time, has also greatly improved the weight gain of the pigs, which can improve the survival rate of the weak children. There is a debate about whether or not the newborn pigs need to cut their teeth. On this issue, the author conducted a comparative practice in a pig farm of 1,500 sow herds.
Problems with prone teeth
1. When cutting teeth, due to improper operation of the staff and equipment problems, the occurrence of gingival inflammation caused by broken gums and broken teeth of individual pigs seriously affected the suckling of the piglets.
2. Streptococcus and other bacterial and viral infections caused by gingivitis, resulting in legging and sudden death of the pig.
3. The survival rate of the weak pigs is low, and many weak pigs refuse to suck milk because of oral trauma after cutting the teeth. Some weak pigs starve to death because of large nipples and difficult oral hygiene.
4. The weight gain is slower. One to five days after tooth cutting, because of the pain in the mouth, the amount of milk is small and the time is short, so the recovery of body strength is very slow and the body condition is poor.
Uncut tooth pig
1. The cheeks were not bitten for the nipples in the case of timely feeding of the pigs.
2. There was no breast inflammation or pain in the sow's nipples or breasts, and she refused to breastfeed.
3. Nursery and fattening pigs did not suffer bite tail biting at a suitable temperature, sufficient drinking water, and a reasonable density.
4. When adult pigs fight, they are often bitten by fangs. It is a paradox. The piglets began to fall off at the age of 30 days to 40 days, and they did not suffer from trauma caused by uncut teeth during childcare and fattening. Dog teeth and carious teeth were longevity and were growing for the rest of their lives. Even if you cut off canines and caries, they will grow again.
5. The survival rate of the weak pigs is obviously increased, and the weight gain is also rapid. The 1st to 5th days after the birth of the piglet is the basis for the entire nursing. The foundation can be better managed, the death reduced, the number of weaning increased and the weaning weight increased.
After the above comparative practice, the 1,500 sow farms have now completely no longer cut teeth for the pigs.
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