Abstract

PELLIZA, Bibiana R et al. Evolution of injuries in the limbs of suckling piglets. Rev Colom Cienc Pecua [online]. 2007, vol.20, n.3, pp.312-317. ISSN 0120-0690.

The purpose of this work was to study the prevalence, evolution and type of lesions occurring in the front and back legs of 3142 suckling piglets from 5 to 27 days of age, also classifying ithem according to age and anatomical region. From the total 3142 piglets, 249 (7.92%) did not have any visible lesions. In the other 2893 (92.08%) piglets, a total of 8415 different lesions were observed. Over this total, an amount of 3869 (46%) piglets showed fibrosis, 4314 (51.20%) had different type of injuries and 232(2.8%) presented arthritis. Over the total of 8415 lesions, 5165 (61.4%), 737 (80.8%), and 2513 (29.9%) had lesions on the carpus, tarsus and hoofs, respectively. Injuries represented 73.8% of the total lesions in 5 to 9 days old piglets, which evolved either towards fibrosis or arthritis. Fibrosis was the product of evolution on lesions mainly in the carpus, whereas arthritis evolved mainly in the tarsus.

Keywords : arthritis; carpus; confinement; injury; pigglets; tarsus.

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