A case of selenium poisoning in weaned piglets; the persistent one wins
Oskam, J.P.; van Putten, H.; Vahl, H.A.; Vellenga, L.
Tijdschrift Voor Diergeneeskunde 114(6): 322-326
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-7453 PMID: 2705186 Document Number: 334074
A case of selenium poisoning involving eighty approximately nine-week-old piglets is reported. Feed and water were supplied with a dry feed hopper with nipple in the through. Clinical symptoms appeared within ten days after the feed-intake. The symptoms consisted in loss of condition (emaciation), drawn-in thin bellies, long hair, loss of appetite, hard, dark faeces, cerebral symptoms and mortality. Autopsy was performed on a total number of four piglets, in which severe hepatic degeneration was detected. When pig prestarter (creep feed) was substituted for piglet-raising feed (weaner-diet), the condition was gradually restored to normal within a few days.