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Northern New York | In response to Chads question on pedv I thought I would share my experience and hope maybe someone else could share some insight.
We broke with pedv on March 14 with 9 sows in the farrowing barn with litters all 7 days old or younger. Within 4 days all piglets were dead or euthanized. Most of the sows in the gest. barn ( same location) showed symptoms as well( scouring and off feed). Within several weeks all symptoms were past.
Farrowed 3 more sows aprox. 1 month later and they all did fine.
Now the catch. Just farrowed 5 sows, all second parity, who have had smaller litters than their first round of farrowing( just weaned and averaged 6 per litter- these are Berks as well). Just checked records and these sows were bred 2 weeks before pedv broke.
Moved 5 more sows into farrowing barn and first one farrowed last night, 4 pigs born. She was bred right in the middle of the outbreak.
Did the stress of pedv affect my litter size? Any other sow guys on here have similar experiences?
I was surprised my 2nd parity litter size is down from 1st parity, only thing I can see that might have affected it is pedv, or am I way of base? Would pedv just after or during breeding do this? | |
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follow up on pedv, anyone else have any experience?
