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white-blazes

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Anglesey
Re: Meg is nested and done! Now with pics & videos of the birth and first moments
« Reply #45 on: September 25, 2011, 04:28:04 pm »
Thanks for sharing Sally, that was lovely to watch  :)

Berkshire Boy

  • Joined May 2011
  • Presteigne, Powys
Re: Meg is nested and done! Now with pics & videos of the birth and first moments
« Reply #46 on: September 25, 2011, 05:52:50 pm »
Well done Sally and Meg glad it all went well and look forward to the next lot. :thumbsup:
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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Meg is nested and done! Now with pics & videos of the birth and first moments
« Reply #47 on: September 26, 2011, 10:58:25 am »
Well done Sally & Meg, glad all went to plan. Super pictures.
Been ofline all weekend so just catching up now.
Mandy  :bouquet: :pig:

Barrett

  • Joined Jun 2011
  • North Somerset
Re: Meg is nested and done! Now with pics & videos of the birth and first moments
« Reply #48 on: September 26, 2011, 12:31:10 pm »
Very very well done Meg, Sally you have a very pretty clever girl, 1 of my sows is not due until Dec but is getting special treatment already.  :bouquet:

violet

  • Joined Jul 2009
Re: Meg is nested and done! Now with pics & videos of the birth and first moments
« Reply #49 on: September 29, 2011, 10:31:42 pm »
Congratulations Meg & Sally  :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :love: are absolutely adorable.

Just catching up, lovely to see the photo's & videos.

Enjoy!

Blonde

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: Meg is nesting... Nested and done!
« Reply #50 on: October 01, 2011, 10:47:57 am »
No intervention necessary, both afterbirths ejected by the time I returned. 

What a clever pig!

I am absolutely delighted with the 5 healthy little bruisers; I wanted 4 or 5 but we all thought she'd be bound to have more.  I only served her one time, not three, so perhaps that's how come I just got 5. 

Anyway, Mum & babies, BH and myself are all warm and happy.  It's been a very long-held ambition to have a sow have piglets - and I couldn't have bettered the experience.
yes if a pig is served 3 times there are more piglets, if you AI twice  12 hours apart.....then yes more piglets also. but 5 for a first timmer is good..... a lower weight on the sow is a forgiving weight to her piglets..

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
I went to meet them  ;D (sorry, went to meet Sally saw the piglets  ;)). They have to be the cutest little creatures I've seen for a long time. They are chunky and tiny, charge about with their ears flapping and play the best wrestling/barging games. So lovely  ;D

Victorian Farmer

  • Guest
fantastic and all the best for the stock

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
I'm looking forward to showing my grandchildren the pictures and videos. Well done Meg :bouquet: :bouquet:(Though i dare say she would rather have a bouquet of carrots)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
I went to meet them  ;D (sorry, went to meet Sally saw the piglets  ;)). They have to be the cutest little creatures I've seen for a long time. They are chunky and tiny, charge about with their ears flapping and play the best wrestling/barging games. So lovely  ;D

She liked the piglets too.   ;) :D
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Eastling

  • Joined Oct 2010
Congratulations they are lovely  :pig:
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