CLINICAL EXAMINATION:
Examine the healthy animals first!!! So, in this case, you should enter the barn and take a look at the goat and the two horses.
All clinical signs are normal. Animals are bright and alert, eating, TPR within normal limits. No slobbering; no evidence of any feet lesions.
Now, look at the pigs.
There are six pigs - one adult sow and five younger pigs. The male pigs are castrated. All have ready access to one another. Not much shelter is available and the pigs are quite exposed to the sun. Some squirrels hop in and out of the yard while you are there. You see some evidence of mouse droppings around the feed trough. The feed trough has standard pig feed in it plus some bread crusts, melon rinds and wilted vegetable greens. Three of the six pigs are looking sluggish and acting decidedly un-pig-like in that they do not investigate your presence in their pen. Examination reveals that one of the three sluggish pigs has a rectal temperature of 104F. One pig has an exudative lesion in the interdigital cleft. Two have ulcerative lesions on their snouts. Holy tamale, Batman. You are desperately wishing you had paid more attention to that vesicular disease lesson in vet school!!!
Luckily for you, on the other side of this computer screen, this is a dry run and you have time to check the diseases out. So, here is your vesicular disease primer.....
Also, here are some other rule-outs, for diseases that may cause lesions on the feet or snout:
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