Orale Eisengabe bei Saugferkel unter den Bedingungen derudökologischen Ferkelerzeugung

摘要

Iron prophylaxis in suckling piglets is usually administered as intramuscular or subcutaneousudinjection. These formulations are medicinal products and therefore prescribableudin organic producing farms. Although iron dextran is not allowed through the EUudRegulation 834/07 there are no restrictions about medicinal products. Used as feedudadditive iron dextran is prohibited. Oral administration of iron pastes is common inudsome organic farms. This paper deals with oral administration of iron pastes containingudonly approved feed additives like iron oxid or iron sulfate.ud22 litters were included. Piglets were randomised and assigned to either control orudexperimental group. With the exception of a commercial paste given two times (day 1udand 7) none of the experimental pastes could achieve satisfactory results. Either theudserum iron level decreased considerably or the piglets became pale and weight gainuddecreased.udIn summary under the restriction of the EU regulation 834/07 sufficient oral supplementationudwith iron is not possible. The only acceptable possibility is an intramuscularudor subcutaneous administration of 200 mg of iron dextran at the second or third day ofudlife.