When to Call a Vet

  • Unable/unwilling to get up
  • ​Hasn’t moved in over 8 hours
  • Not eating for more than 24 hrs
  • Hasn’t defecated/urinated in 48 hrs
  • Persistent vomiting or diarrhea for 24 hrs or more
  • Temperature of over 102.5
  • Severe or persistent lameness
  • Severe lacerations or persistent bleeding
  • Blood in stool
  • Seizures, spasms, or in-coordination
  • Rapid breathing or distressed breathing
  • Ate something that is poisonous or could cause an obstruction
  • Painful abdomen
  • Sudden behavior change
  • Foul smell coming from any area of pig
  • Discharge from vulva or prepuce
  • Hasn’t delivered piglet in 4 hrs from start of labor
  • Longer than 45 minutes since delivered last piglet and is still in labor
  • ​Longer than 12 hrs since last piglet and no afterbirth