The veterinary laboratory in Edinburgh is still working with the organ samples taken from our dead piglets so we’re unlikely to get results before Monday or Tuesday. We’ve finished the course of antibiotics being administered to Daphne, one of our Berkshire sows, and her three surviving piglets, but we have to keep them in isolation [...]
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Lab can’t isolate infective agent
31 March, 2010
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The vet has just phoned with the latest lab results. The SAC lab has been unable to determine the infective agent and is concerned the pericarditis is atypical (no pus, no yellow fibrin) for a bacterial infection. Instead, the piglets had hemorrhagic pericarditis. The most common causes of haemorrhagic pericarditis are tumors or TB, but [...]
Read moreStill no definitive results on dead piglets
30 March, 2010
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The preliminary lab reports have come back on our two dead piglets. The vet phoned to say that both piglets had acute pericarditis (inflammation of the sac that covers the heart) leading to cardiac tamponade, but the Scottish Agricultural College laboratory was unable to isolate the causative agent. Further cultures are being done.
Read morePiglets have veterinary lab puzzled
30 March, 2010
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The vet, having spoken to the Scottish Agricultural College veterinary laboratory to organise analysis of the samples taken from our dead piglets, phoned to say the lab is puzzled by the combination of symptoms and autopsy results. Some of the symptoms and pathology are similar to those of Mulberry heart (Vitamin E deficiency) or lack [...]
Read morePiglet autopsies prove inconclusive
29 March, 2010
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The vet has been out and done the autopsies. Most of the internal organs were healthy with no evidence of disease, injury or congenital defonrmity. The main exceptions were the heart of both piglets, which were hugely enlarged.
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