NATURAL RESISTANCE OF PIGS TO DIFFERENT ABIOTIC FACTORS

N. Cherniy, Al. Mitrofanov, Olga Machula, Ludmila Tarasenko

Abstract
    The article summarizes our own research and the publications on the importance of hygiene sanitary and technological factors to ensure disease prevention, to increase the resistance and productivity of pigs. The emphasis has been done not on the treatment but on the prevention of swine diseases due to the optimization of the standards of hygienic parameters, tolerated permissible concentrations of substances in the environment, their influence not only on the processes of thermoregulation in the body and body adaptation but also to the increase in the resistance of the body to infectious agents. Due to non-observance of the rules of hygiene and sanitation, feeding and drinking regimes in the pig-breeding enterprises, the annual death of animals exceeds 25%, the diseases of the digestive tract are registered in 40-50%, respiratory diseases - in 25-30% of cases. Growth retardation is registered in the young animals, the durability does not exceed 83.2-85.6%. High indoor air humidity should be considered as a factor of importance in the etiopathogenesis of respiratory diseases and temperature changes - as a factor to prevent hyperthermia and hypoglycemia. The increase in the efficiency of the work in pig-breeding complexes can be achieved: - firstly, due to the decrease in the influence of environmental factors having the negative impact on the development of swine immunity; secondly, due to the elimination of negatively acting agents from the external environment and the strengthening of factors that increase the resistance of the body; thirdly, due to the development of nonspecific immunostimulants and their rational use in the pig - breeding practice.

Key words: swine, resistance, hygiene, sanitation, abiotic and biotic factors