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This article will focus on clinical signs of some E coli infections: neonatal colibacillosis, post-weaning colibacillosis diarrhoea and oedema disease.

The main aspect that cannot be forgotten is the complete approach necessary to evaluate all possibilities. In that sense, samples have to be collected and tested to all possible agents that might cause diarrhea.

The ideal sample for diagnostic of neonatal enteric pathogens is the submission of live piglets.

The most productive farms are not always the best. We must also bear in mind the weaned piglet's weight and the sow's feed intake.

The factor that is completely ignored is that newly weaned piglets develop edema; they retain water in their tissues above what is normal and this explains the abnormal gain of the piglet in the first days after weaning.

The trick consists in selecting the appropriate foster sows and marking them on the back with the maximum number of pigs that they can take care of.

It' is not as simple as the larger pigs have better survivability...

The nutritional expected benefit of these products is very high but every precaution must be taken, especially to prevent introduction of PED and spreading of ASF.

On this farm, the oral drug is introduced in a 1-litre bottle hanged upside-down (like a drip) from the cart used for tending to the piglets.

This trick explains how to obtain foster sows for the adoptions.

In the last 4 batches of weaned piglets, the farmer saw around 3% of anorexic and lethargic piglets. All the treatments he tried failed (amoxicillin or florfenicol injections), and finally the piglets died.

Achieving a high prolificacy and knowing how to take advantage of it (transform it into weaned piglets) is vital for the productivity of a sow farm.

This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.

The use of these nests help create two well-differentiated areas: a warmer one for the piglets and a cooler one for the sows.

The aim is to avoid dehydration during the first days after weaning to improve feed intake.

There are many home-made options that allow us to carry out this so important technique on our farms.