Common diseases of pigs and their diagnosis, including swine fever and its treatment with serum / by Ernest Peacey.

  • Peacey, Ernest.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Common diseases of pigs and their diagnosis, including swine fever and its treatment with serum / by Ernest Peacey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rafters, between it and the roof, keep the place snug and warm. It is astonishing to see the progress made by pigs when comfortably housed. Ventilators, consisting of air-bricks or louvre boards, should be provided in the upper part of the wall, so devised that they can be closed during cold weather, if needful. The floor should be impervious to moisture, and should consist of cement, bricks, or other suitable material. It should be laid upon a gradual slope, the fall being from within outwards, in order to favour surface drainage. he floor of the sleeping-quarters should be covered with a detachable wooden platform (disused railway sleepers make an excellent floor) for the animals to sleep on. The floor of the exercising yard should be traversed by shallow grooves, herring-bone fashion, as these prevent slipping and the occurrence of such accidents as sprains and broken limbs. Drainage.—Surface drainage is the best, the drain always opening on the outside of the stye. On no account must the surface drainage of one stye pass through that of another, because if one pen of pigs contracts a disorder there will in this case be a risk of infection spreading to the other animals, particularly if the illness be of a highly contagious or infectious character, such as swine fever. It will therefore be readily understood that the surface drain outside the stye should be of the nature of a covered gutter, opening into a cesspool or other receptacle, so
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