There's been lots of discussion about post weaning colibacillosis, certainly something that everyone wants to pay attention to.
Nursery scours essentially is what that is and nursery scours is typically caused by a swine specific E. Coli and has been described as something of concern in Canada.
Certainly, as ventilation challenges go up and down in the spring, warm days, cool nights, we start dealing with ear necrosis and tail biting and that's really often a function of managing the environment so it's important that we continue to look and manage those things, get your ventilation set up really solid for going into these summer months.
Tail biting is such an interesting and very hair pulling event in a barn and certainly we can provide information on how to manage those but there's no simple solutions.
But it is certainly a challenge we would expect to see grow through the spring months and then settle off into the summer as managing the environment becomes simpler.
Dr. Brockhoff says, in general, swine health in Canada is very good and we seem to be controlling the few diseases that we're constantly dealing with at this time of year.
Source: Farmscape