Pig farming

During the rearing period, pigs face many challenges that can impact their well-being and performances with consequences on farmers’ income.

Based on its expertise in plant-active ingredients, Phytosynthese offers a range of products that help to support animals faced with these challenges.

Thanks to the diversity of vegetal active compounds, the offered solutions have a wide application scope (digestive, respiratory, behavior, metabolism, etc.) and are adapted to all physiological stages: piglets, fatteners and sows.

Digestive

Digestive disorders are a recurring issue in swine farms, in particular in piglets.

Indeed, weaning stress and immaturity of digestive and immune functions are favorable to the emergence of dysbiosis.

In fattening, digestive problems can also appear at feed transitions or in presence of pathogens (Lawsonia intracellularis, Brachyspira hyodysenteriae).

➜ These gastrointestinal problems can cause a high morbidity and economic losses for farmers.

Distribution of pathogens causing diarrhea according to affected animal category

Farming diseases of pigs (GP Martineau)

Hepatic

Respiratory

Respiratory disorders are frequent in swine farms, especially in fattening.

➜ Respiratory pathogens (virus, bacteria such as Actinobacilllus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella multocida) or poor rearing conditions (density, temperature, humidity) can weaken the respiratory tract and cause morbidity.

Mechanisms and possible consequences of viral and/or bacterial infections of the porcine respiratory tract

Mechanisms and possible consequences of viral and/or bacterial infections of the porcine respiratory tract (adapted from Opriessnig et al.)

Behavior

Weaning, farrowing, mixing of animals, transportation are sources of stress and nervousness.

➜ They generate negative behavior (cannibalism, climbing, fights) that impacts well-being but also performances.

Metabolism

During the rearing period, animals can face several stresses : physiological (weaning, farrowing), environmental (thermal) or nutritional (feed transitions).

➜ All these factors generate inflammatory reactions and oxidative stress at systemic level.

Inflammatory markers before and after farrowing in healthy sows and in sows affected with postpartum dysgalactia syndrome (Kaiser, 2018)

Urogenital

In sows, urinary disorders are very frequent, they can appear for different reasons, both physiological and morphological:

  • contamination of vulva by feces;
  • contamination by ground (seated position, slippery floors, locomotion problems, overweight);
  • injuries of urogenital tract during farrowing.

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