Pipestone Veterinary Services News

Helpful Terminology: Gestation = Pregnancy Farrowing = The birth process for a pig Sow = A mother pig Gilt = A young female pig who isn’t a mom yet My absolute favorite part about growing up on a pig farm was being able to watch and assist in the pigl et...

This week’s pig of the week is a newborn piglet. At  less than 1 day of age this piglet is walking and nursing. He fits easily in my hands. He lives with his mother and his 10 siblings and his life consists of napping and nursing and not much else.

I have been practicing swine veterinary medicine at Pipestone Veterinary Services for ten years, and one of the most frequently asked questions from hog producers is this:  “What I can do today to improve my barn and make more money?”  And you can’t blame them for asking!  Here, I’ve written about Three...

It’s the beginning of a new year, and everyone is looking over their 2014 records and planning how to have an even better, more profitable 2015.  In today’s world of business, people use record keeping for everything.  In fact, we may go as far as combing through our online bank...

Let's visit about creep feeding.  With the exception of pasture lambing creep feeding is absolutely essential to a successful program. Lambs learn at an early age to eat with the ewes, develop a taste for what the ewe is fed and want the security of mom around, so the location...

As lambing season approaches, it is important to review a condition that can cause considerable economic loss. Pregnancy toxemia is also known as lambing sickness, twin-lamb disease, pregnancy disease and ketosis. This often fatal disease occurs during the last month of pregnancy and is the most commonly occurring metabolic disease...

Recently, I was the guest speaker at the Tennessee Sheep Producers annual meeting where among my topics I was asked to give my vision of the future of the sheep industry and among my comments were these. The NSIP project is toast despite ASI's efforts to attempt to convince, with...

Buster may be only six months old, but the kitten has already made a lifetime’s worth of impact in the lives of many people. The tiger kitten was brought to Sylvia Newell of Pipestone when a friend found him while mowing near Flandreau, South Dakota.   Sylvia already had three dogs...

Without question, arthritis is a very common disease that may affect our beloved canine companions in many ways. Arthritis is the progressive and permanent long term deterioration of the cartilage surrounding the joints; in other words, the joints don’t function as smoothly as they should. The most common signs of...