Page 2 of articles about lameness

After two weeks of quarantine, gilts started limping. Treatment with amoxycillins did not help, only treatment with high doses (10 mg/kg) of macrolides and spectinomycines brought a solution.

Understanding potential causes of lameness can help reduce the levels of lameness in the breeding herd and thus improve farm productivity and sow welfare.

Although a commensal, M. hyorhinis may cause serious systemic disease through mechanisms that are not fully understood.

Lameness is the second most common cause for the culling of sows.

The sow must be able to store enough calcium during the pregnancy to face the possible mobilizations during the lactation.

In this second article we are going to analyze the causes of these locomotive system disorders and the treatments to avoid them or to minimize their effects.

Locomotor problems are serious, multi-factorial problems that aren’t well registered on farms, but for the most part are correctable.

In the diagnosis of nervous conditions it is difficult to establish initially, whether the problems lie in the bones, joints, muscles, or tendons or nerves. We should rule out anatomical or pathological problems in the former four systems before we assume we are dealing with nervous system problems.