The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Dan on February 28, 2012, 08:53:02 am
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How many babies did Hotlips have? ??? :D
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(http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/images/user/hotlips.jpg)
Well done Lill and Robert. :thumbsup:
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Okay, I count 15. They are fab! :pig: congrats
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olly, are you sure you count 15? :pig:
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16 ? Definately at least 15 ;)
Well done Hot Lips & Lillian :thumbsup:
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thats great, clever girl
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If the British Lop can farrow and rear this number of pigs, why is it a rare breed? ???
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that is the big question maybe the short legs they get bogged in the glabber maybe the lop ears they cant see where the food is and maybe just lost the popularity vote
but the are very docile unlike other breeds very good mothers children can be with them without any fear and crossed with the Hampshire they have fantastic growth rates that can beat the commercial guys even in south America there loss not mine eh rosemary now what was the name of that guy at the RHS ;) :farmer:
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I wonder if they just don't look as engaging as some of the other traditional breeds?
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it may well be that also the look of commercial pig with it being white just the same as the welsh pig just look at the popularity of kunnies and every daftie wants a micro pig :farmer:
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i count 15 but im not sure, still nice piggies!!!
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Yes indeed hotlips did have 15 babies, if there is such a thing as reincarnation i do not want to come back as a pig and have that amount of babies suckling on my tits ;D ;D
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does hot lips have more than 14 teats?
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no just the 14 :farmer:
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So these are Hamlops?
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yes but this time with a different boar than the last two litters :farmer:
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If the British Lop can farrow and rear this number of pigs, why is it a rare breed? ???
These one's are crossed with Hampshire - they're more prone to having big litters being more of a commercial breed (not in UK, but in USA)
I think maybe folks think because Lop's are a pink pig that there must be hundreds of them about, so choose something else assuming that all pink pigs in piggeries must be the same breed)
Middlewhites are the same - it's a shame really.
The pink breeds are a wee bit more susceptible to sunburn etc, and I don't think they're seen as hardy breeds for that reason (maybe another reason folks choose something else?)
But Lill's girl is so gentle that I can't understand why more folks would keep them - infact I told her I'd buy some if she ever bred them pure ;) ;D :thumbsup:
Karen :wave:
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the fertility comes of the mothers side if she does not realease the eggs they are not going to get fertilized and as i said it is a different boar not that that made much difference with the pure Hampshire's they were smallish litters but there mother has big litters :farmer:
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Yes, I assumed the litter size was more the "responsibility" of the sow rather than the boar.
At least Middle Whites are spectacularly ugly :-) But I can see where the Lop and the Welsh might miss out in the eye-catching stakes. Shame really. :pig: :pig: :pig: