Hey first time poster.....
i'm fairly new to raising pigs and right now i am at a loss. I successfully raised 2 Tamworth and Duroc mix pigs had no problem and then I purchased 6 40lb feeder pigs and I keep them outside, I do have a shelter built for them. Their mom had been put down due to a broken leg while the piglets were still young. Three days ago my brother went out to feed the pigs and noticed that one of them was not eating and did not look well so we moved him to a different spot and contacted a local pig farmer who came out and looked at him and said he thought he has pneumonia. He was sneezing, coughing, had a hard time breathing, would not eat, couldn't move, didn't sound like a normal pig, and had a low temperature. We immediately started giving him Tylan twice a day and moved him to a new shelter and put a heat lamp in there to warm him up. We started give him molasses water, and kefir by syringing it in his mouth. His temperature started rise to normal but he did not act any differently. We also switched him to oxyTetrcycline which we now give him twice a day. I went out this morning and looked him over and found a lump on his left side just below his shoulder it is about the size of a small apple...
So a few questions:
1) How long could it take for him to get better on antibiotics?
2) Is this lump most likely a swollen lymph node?
3) Could this be something other than pneumonia?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!