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HappyHippy

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Piglets FINALLY arrived
« on: March 10, 2011, 01:56:38 pm »
After a LONG wait and an absolute fiasco of a farrowing (totally our fault :-\) my wee Kune Kune piglets arrived today (8 weeks late !)
7 in total, 2 gilts and 5 boars - 1 not doing so well, got him inside heating up and bottle feeding.
Here's hoping he makes it through the night and can go back out with mum tomorrow ! Photo's soon ;o)
 :pig: :love: :pig: :love: :pig:

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2011, 02:02:44 pm »
Congratulations Grandma  ;)

Sounds like a lovely litter - can't wait to see the photos.  8 weeks late  ???

 :pig: :chook: :dog: :bee:

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Eastling

  • Joined Oct 2010
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 02:05:38 pm »
Congratulations! well done mum
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Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 03:31:05 pm »
Congratulations.  Hope the little one makes it.

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 03:34:37 pm »
Congratulations!  Hope the little one does well.
 :love: :pig: :love:
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loosey

  • Joined May 2010
  • Cornwall
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 03:42:37 pm »
Hooray!! Can't wait to see pictures! Congratilations!  :love: :pig:

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 05:07:03 pm »
Congratulations, and good luck with the little one!

 :wave:

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 05:20:16 pm »
photos now please  ;D ;D ;D

how can you be out by 8 weeks on your dates?  :pig: :pig: :pig:

HappyHippy

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Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 06:58:06 pm »
Firstly, little 'Lucky' (named by Lillian & Robert cos they were here visiting and got roped in  ;) Don't know what I'd have done without you guys THANKS AGAIN  :-*) is back out with mum  ;D He had some 'litter care' from Supplies from Smallholders (on here  ;)) and after a bit of a heat up and a few syringes of baby milk was trying to jump out of the box  ::) He's had a feed with mum and is suggled up with the rest of his brothers and sisters. All's well that ends well  :love: :pig:

Secondly, the 8 weeks out thing  :-\
She was definately served on 10-10-10 (we saw the evidence) and she definately didn't seem to come back into season 3 weeks after this. So we brought her in to the shed just before 30th Jan expecting piglets, she hurt her leg (some of you may remember the post about the metacam) and the 30th came and went with no piglets ???
We kept her in thinking that maybe she had returned to season and after a quick recalculation figured the piglets would arrive around the 20th of February. Needless to say that came and went too with no signs  ??? ::) So further calculations made us think that next week would have been her date, except she got fed up hanging around in the shed and broke out last week so she could go back to the field with her hubby  :-\ ::) We noticed her udder starting to bag up on Tuesday, planned to move her back into the shed today. Went out this morning to feed her and no sign of her in the field, a quick check of the arc revealled piglets and mummy seeming well. We did our mad dash switch around of pigs and pens and fields  ::) and brought her and her piglets inside. Phew - what a day !
Here's a photo of Rebecca giving Lucky a cuddle before he went back out - I'll get photos of the whole lot tomorrow.
Thanks for all you comments and wishes,
Karen x

faith0504

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Cairngorms
  • take it easy and chill
    • blaemuir cottage
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2011, 07:02:02 pm »
oh that is a lovely picture, glad everything has worked out well for you all, cant wait to see the other pictures  :wave:

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 07:02:53 pm »
Looks very content, hope she keeps doing well  :)

robert waddell

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Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 07:15:23 pm »
glad to help out happy hippy
it must be a scottish thing we have one the very same  the boar was on her and going like a fiddlers elbow due 8 wks ago BUT we think this comming week just have to wait an see

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2011, 07:16:13 pm »
Congratulations - well it just shows pigs will work to their own timetables!  ;D

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2011, 07:35:27 pm »
Sooo cute, looks like Rebecca's a dab hand at the piggy midwifery  :wave:
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Cinderhills

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Piglets FINALLY arrived
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2011, 07:38:10 pm »
Great pic, so cute. :)

 

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