EIMERIOCIDE AND KENOKOX EFFICACY AGAINST COCCIDIA OOCYSTS IN PIGLETS

Coccidioses (isosporosis, eimeriosis) and balantidiosis are most common among parasitic protozoa in pigs. These parasitoses affect pigs of different ages, but they have the greatest negative effect on the body of young pigs. Piglets of 7–30 days of age are more often infected and more severely ill with isosporosis, and piglets up to 2 months of age and older with eimeriosis. One sow house was taken for testing and constant monitoring. This pigsty was divided into four sectors with 30 sows each. The complex drug Kenokoks 4% at a dose of 0.5 l/m2 with an exposure of two hours was used in the first sector during the preparation of the pigsty for disinfestation. Another complex drug Eimeriocide 5% at a dose of 0.5 l/m2 with an exposure of two hours was used for disinfestation of the second sector. The recommended dose of a 4% hot sodium hydroxide solution was used to disinfection the third and fourth sectors (basic version). The infection of pigs by coccidia in different groups was evaluated according to the results of coproscopic studies in 10, 15, 30, 45 and 60 days of age after completion of the pigsty. The results of coproscopic studies of pigs born from sows from the experimental sector (where disinfestation was performed by Kenokoks) showed that pigs in 10, 15 and 22 days old were free of coccidia oocysts; the extensinfection of coccidia in these piglets at the age of 30, 45 and 60 days was 5, 10 and 20% respectively. Balantidia cyst was found only at 60 days of age, extensinfection was 10%. The pigs were free of coccidia oocysts from the second compartment of the pigsty, where disinfestation was performed with Eimeriocide at 10 and 15 days of age. Infection is set at 22, 30, 45 and 60 days of age, extensinfection was 5, 10, 15 and 20% respectively. Infection with balantidia was established only at 60 days of age; extensinfection was 10%.