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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Charlotte01 on March 28, 2021, 01:49:49 pm

Title: When will my pig give birth
Post by: Charlotte01 on March 28, 2021, 01:49:49 pm

We have a GOS/saddleback gilt, she went with the boar on 14th november and she left him mount her straight away, which i assumed meant she was in heat.. going by that date she should have had piglets 3 weeks ago so now im thinking as it was the boars first time maybe he didnt know what he was doing so give it another 3 weeks roughly and that takes us to tuesday just past 23rd. She looms very ready, vulva is swollen and shes not eaten pig nuts since friday but had eaten fruits since then. Please help im not sure if i got my dates compeltely wrong.

Title: Re: When will my pig give birth
Post by: SallyintNorth on March 29, 2021, 03:13:32 pm

bumping this and hoping one of our experienced piggie people see it and reply soon

Title: Re: When will my pig give birth
Post by: harmony on March 29, 2021, 05:36:32 pm

Served 14/11/20 due 08/03/21 another 3 weeks makes her any day. Mixture of first time boar and gilt could have been the problem. Although had they got together when they shouldn't it would have been fine!


How long did she stay with the boar?


Does she look pregnant and got milk? You wont be the first to get to this point, to find you have an empty gilt that is in season.

Title: Re: When will my pig give birth
Post by: valmet10 on March 29, 2021, 07:02:56 pm

is she showing inpig,,she would be by now