Julie - Did the vet think it necesary to - and did he inject your pig with penicillin?
Billyberridge - just for your peace of mind...
My husband has trained with a Vet, and worked with local vets. He injects our animals, he knows what he is doing and how to do it, and also know not ti give antibiotics when it is not necessary - that is why they no longer work well on humans, people are too quick to inject, just as Doctors have been too quick to hand out prescriptions, it is all down to experience and common sense.
Also it is 28 days before animals can be accepted into the food chain after
injection where we live. This is specified by the vets that take the food into the food chain at the abbatoir.
As far as Erysipelas - we ourselves have never had any of our pigs suffer from this in the good number of years we have been breeding.
Good hygiene and the employment of cats to keep the rats away, usually means it does not get into your herd. Maybe we are just lucky to have a healthy herd.
We all have our own ways of dealing with things, and I advised Julie as I saw fit.
I think Billyberridge that you may have jumped to a few conclusions and read inbetween some lines here - not a good thing to do - it has upset me that you think I am talking a load of crap - at 50 years old and having run a pig keeping business as a couple, with a lot of experience, I can assure you, we do not talk crap - maybe you misunderstand my post or have for some unknown reason taken it personally.