Nipple Crust

[Rochester Piggy]

Today, I was doing my 3.5 year old, extremely aggressive, single sow Cali’s health check and noticed crust around the base of her nipples! It was white, flakey, and dry. It came off when I gently rubbed the area. Cali has never been pregnant or been in contact with a boar as far as I know. What could be wrong?

 

[Lady Kelly]

Hmm I'm not sure on this one. When my sows have had crusty nipples from cysts it hasn't been white, flaky or dry so hopefully someone will be along soon that has come across this

 

[gizzy]

Is there any discharge from the nipple? Very gently squeeze! If there is any fluid discharge , maybe safest to se a vet
cut down foods that produced natural estrogen, which is just about every thing a pig eats. Personaly l would just stick to dried pellet food

Food to avoid
Seed
Fruit: apricots, oranges, strawberries, peaches
Vegetables carrots, kale, celery ect
Legumes( peas, beans ect )
I had this problem in a pig! Turned out to be a syst! Unfortunately it was that long ago and l have had several pigs with nipple /mamary problems that I don't remember the outcome for this particular pig

 

[VickiA]

Does she have any other symptoms of ovarian cysts? If you are concerned I would ask a vet to check her over.

How are you doing @Rochester Piggy? How many weeks?

 

[Wiebke]

Today, I was doing my 3.5 year old, extremely aggressive, single sow Cali’s health check and noticed crust around the base of her nipples! It was white, flakey, and dry. It came off when I gently rubbed the area. Cali has never been pregnant or been in contact with a boar as far as I know. What could be wrong?

Please have your sow checked for ovarian cysts.

Sows have been engineered to be nonstop pregnant until they die young either from birthing complications or from being worn out by the constant pregnancies. That is why hormone production never slows down or stops. In older sows this can lead to ovarian cysts. Most older sows have them but the majority of cysts never causes any problems. In some sows it does however as it changes their behaviour and makes them more aggressive and grumpy because they are basically constantly in season. Sometimes a cyst can also go wrong.
A sow doesn't have to show all or even any of the usually cited symptoms for cysts to be present; this is why the majority of cysts go unnoticed.

Guinea Lynx :: Ovarian Tumors

 

[Rochester Piggy]

Please have your sow checked for ovarian cysts.

Sows have been engineered to be nonstop pregnant until they die young either from birthing complications or from being worn out by the constant pregnancies. That is why hormone production never slows down or stops. In older sows this can lead to ovarian cysts. Most older sows have them but the majority of cysts never causes any problems. In some sows it does however as it changes their behaviour and makes them more aggressive and grumpy because they are basically constantly in season. Sometimes a cyst can also go wrong.
A sow doesn't have to show all or even any of the usually cited symptoms for cysts to be present; this is why the majority of cysts go unnoticed.

Guinea Lynx :: Ovarian Tumors

She had a check up 2 months ago and was given a clean bill of health

 

[Wiebke]

She had a check up 2 months ago and was given a clean bill of health

Hormonal issues can develop and show within 2 months' time. The hormonally most active cysts are generally the small ones when they start up, so they are not exactly showing up on an examination or a scan.