Pig down!

[Pinecones]

Color is still bad but better than yesterday.

I strongly suspect she’s not full kune. Her skin is normally soft pink with black spots. Her ears are normally pink. Only the very 1/4” tip of the ear got killed with the frostbite. Around her eyes should be clean and light but is stained from runny drainage right now.

She’s currently weaseling herself into my lap for snuggles, her breath is still sounding pained.

 

[Pinecones]

Forgot a photo here

 

[Pinecones]

Just in the last hour her pink color has started to return to her throughout her body. Those ears should be soft pink with spots!

(Sorry for lots of little posts, using a smartphone and it’s difficult to navigate. )

 

[misfitmorgan]

She may just have pneumonia still however pneumonia can be an indicator of PRRS.

I believe your pig has PRRS, it is not curable and can/will spread to your other pigs. It is treatable but precautions need to be taken with adults for the first few weeks after symptoms show and esp at farrow, piglets need attention. This link has treatment information.
http://www.thepigsite.com/pighealth/article/142/porcine-reproductive-and-respiratory-syndrome-prrs/
You can test for PRRS if you like with a blood sample 3 weeks after she went off feed the first time.

If she still seems sick after several months and is negative for PRRS, she may have Glassiers disease.

I have listed these in the order of likeliness. It is important you know that it is possible for her to die from any of these things without proper treatment(generally treatment for pneumonia and other secondary infections). If it is the first she will get over it eventually with continued treatment, the second one is not curable however she will develop an immunity and return to being "healthy" in as little as 6 weeks or as much as 3 months. The third is also not curable.

I am not a vet and can only suggest options of what might be wrong. If she is not truly better in 3 weeks or less....you definitively need to get that blood test done as it had consequences for breeding and the rest of your herd.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Good luck poor baby

 

[Pinecones]

Did some reading on the diseases. Glassiers disease sounds suspect as fAr as symptoms go, as well as sudden onset and other factors. I will continue to research this, thank you. I feel it’s more than the pneumonia she had 3 weeks ago. Her lungs are not giving her trouble right now.

 

[High Desert Cowboy]

Does she have any swelling in her joints? That’s another common sign of H.parasuis. Another possibility apart from PRRS would be mycoplasmal pneumonia, which does have a tendency to randomly return and stop again.Either option is no bueno, and I wouldn’t let her around any other pig after she gets better until you’ve received results from a blood sample in a few weeks.

 

[Pinecones]

She’s been more active today, slowly ambling around the house. She ate quite a bit and is still working down a very large helping of yam and apple. No improvement in color.

As I watch her I can’t help but notice that her main, if not only, core symptom seems to be pain. She is wobbly on her feet, seems exhausted by standing, and still tenses when you touch her shoulders. It looks like her body is a very uncomfortable place to be. She eats slowly but readily between many-hour-long naps and drinks very well. Still no fever, coughing, wheezing, or other lung infection symptoms. Her ears are not edemic, just discolored. Her entire body is discolored.

 

[Pinecones]

Does she have any swelling in her joints? That’s another common sign of H.parasuis. Another possibility apart from PRRS would be mycoplasmal pneumonia, which does have a tendency to randomly return and stop again.Either option is no bueno, and I wouldn’t let her around any other pig after she gets better until you’ve received results from a blood sample in a few weeks.

No swelling anywhere I can detect. I’ve palpated most of her body. Her only guarded area is her shoulders/base of neck.

 

[Latestarter]

Hope you get it figured out...