Pig strong, eat less! How should farmers judge whether animals are healthy by their food intake?

In the daily production management of livestock feeding, especially in the clinical diagnosis of sick animals, it is particularly important to observe the dietary status of livestock. Mainly includes the following aspects: appetite. Mainly depends on the animal's food intake, the speed of eating and chewing, whether chewing is alive, and the length of feeding time. The common pathological changes are: loss of appetite, manifested as decreased food intake, lethargy, short time and picky eaters. Diseases mainly occur in the stomach and forestomach, usually accompanied by diarrhea, constipation, impaired oral mucosal integrity or tooth and tongue lesions.

Loss of appetite and refusal to eat. Mainly seen in high fever, bloating, constipation, hernia (comprehensive), swelling of lips and tongue, tetanus, mandibular fracture, bovine tongue syndrome and so on. Excessive appetite, abnormal increase in appetite. It is found in the recovery period of hyperthyroidism, various diseases, diabetes and parasitic diseases. Mainly check the water consumption of animals. The influencing factors include environmental temperature, humidity, feed and water content, salt content, drinking habits and water quality. Its pathological changes include: colic, common loss of appetite in the early stage of gastrointestinal diseases, no vomiting and diarrhea.

Severe encephalopathy (such as encephalitis and meningitis), swelling of lips and tongue (such as bovine gastritis), tetanus, pharyngeal paralysis, etc. Hyperuricemia is common in diabetes, severe vomiting, diarrhea, profuse sweating, extensive skin burns, exudative pleurisy, salt poisoning, febrile sexually transmitted diseases and so on. Different habits show that animals like to eat substances that healthy animals don't eat, such as wood, stones, childbirth, fetus, bedding, feathers, soil and so on. Common in intestinal worms in metabolic diseases due to malnutrition (such as diseases, adult osteomalacia), trace element deficiency (phosphorus, sulfur, selenium, iron, vitamin E, etc. ), odor, nervous system diseases (such as rabies) or parasites. Eating and chewing disorders. Gluttony: Eating a lot, chewing, not swallowing, and sometimes vomiting. Can be seen in malacia, dental disease, oral mucosal swelling, ulcers and so on.

Feeding difficulties: swollen lips and tongue, tetanus is not very serious, etc. Can't eat: tetanus, jaw fracture, dislocation, xylophone, etc. Horses bite food like dogs, but don't chew it: seen in hydrocephalus. Stick your nose into the water when drinking water. When drinking water, even the pharynx will be immersed in water: pharyngeal paralysis, tongue swelling, facial paralysis. Chewing weakness, stop chewing, drowsiness: high fever or lip, mucosa, cheeks and other injuries. Incomplete mastication: lingual odontopathy, facial paralysis, tetanus, minor fracture, actinomycosis. You can usually judge from these.