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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: timberdog on December 28, 2015, 06:01:06 pm

Title: Absess ?
Post by: timberdog on December 28, 2015, 06:01:06 pm
Hi my gos boar has developed a lunp on his outer and inner lip...its got heat in it so i can only assume infection from being around livestock for a while etc.

We have checked inside mouth after a little pig wrestling lol and it looks like the lip only not gums or teeth.

I can only assume he may have cut his inner lip and its got infected and now absess?

My thoughts are clean enviroment and treat with antibiotics?

Ps appologies on grammer i am very dslexic

Any further constructive advice welcome
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: HappyHippy on December 29, 2015, 12:08:54 am
Has he got tusks? Could this have caught the lip? If so get them trimmed as soon as possible.
I'd give a long acting antibiotic jab and keep and eye on him - don't go messing with the abscess.
Keep us posted
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: timberdog on December 29, 2015, 10:35:08 am
No tisks as young ..ok sounds lile a plan
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: Marches Farmer on December 29, 2015, 12:00:23 pm
I agree with HH.  Long-acting antibiotic should do the trick, especially for a young, fit animal.  I get the vet in to sedate and file down the tusks of my breeding boars when they're about a year old. 
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: fiatmillie1969 on January 01, 2016, 11:02:37 am
Very interested in this post as 1 of my tamworth crosses has a sore mouth/teeth??


How is the long acting antibiotics administered? Injection?


Only injected my pigs once and it was hell on earth.


Any advice welcome


Happy new year


Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: Marches Farmer on January 01, 2016, 12:18:55 pm
I have a Masterject, which is a cross between a caulking gun and an air pistol and you can put down a bit of feed and inject from outside the pen. Other folks like the Slapshot, which works differently and is much cheaper.  Otherwise it's a minimum of three hefty chaps pinning the pig behind a strong metal hurdle and someone who doesn't mind 150 decibels of screaming pig next to their ear while they administer the jab.
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: fiatmillie1969 on January 01, 2016, 12:33:38 pm
cheers marches farmer, yeah done the 1 man,1 women and a son injection(hell on earth).
Defo need to get myself one of these off to have a look now.
very helpful.


thanx
Title: Re: Absess ?
Post by: IretonsFarm on January 06, 2016, 11:52:48 am
We had a gilt take poorly over the new year and had to give a 5 day course of antibiotics.

The first two days was easy enough as she was just lying in bed feeling sorry for herself so fed the others then injected her. Days 3-5 as she was improving was a case of putting the feed out and trying to get her in a position where by the other pigs weren't likely to get in the way whilst I did it.

Not the best part of pig keeping but would of been worse dragging a corpse out the pen and phoning the knacker man.