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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Polished Arrow on June 27, 2012, 07:18:31 am
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Two so far!
Cute as cute can be, all snuffly and wobbly.
Lady P is extremely protective and not a little disturbed by our presence, so we are keeping at a distance and just letting her get on with it - she seems to be doing just fine. Only challenge is the farrowing rails being completely stuffed with the nest stuffing she gathered yesterday, but we think we will just leave her to work it all out.
Pictures when we can get close!
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All the attention on Margot and its Lady Penelope who does the business :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
NOTHING nicer than new piglets!! ;D ;D ;D
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piggies
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Congratulations :thumbsup:
Looking forward to photo's ;)
Karen :wave:
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Congratulations!!! :love: :pig: :love:
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12! All alive and kicking :thumbsup:
(http://i47.tinypic.com/6733ih.jpg)
One teeny tiny runt already called Spot. As in 'Spot the runt' :D
(http://i48.tinypic.com/dczak5.jpg)
Two afterbirths and three 'mummified' piglets - all very small.
Mother and babes now sleeping! How long does that last for?!
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They are adorable! We had one with just the same colouring as the 3rd one along, white on one side and the rest black, and oddly, one with a spot of black on the white saddle too. They sleep and feed on and off all day and night from now on, eventually the mum will come out for nuts and water when she is hungry enough. Congratulations - is Margot still not producing? Tamsaddle
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welldone, gorgeous foto.
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Gorgeous :love:
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:pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: ;D ;D :trophy: :trophy: :trophy:
What a LOVELY big litter!
I am so jealous!
Charlotte averages 7 or 8
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:thumbsup: Oh wow - fantastic. :thumbsup:
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Soooo lovely :love: - just love the pic of you and spot. Congratulations :trophy:
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They are wonderful :love: :pig: :love:
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So happy and utterly exhausted!
Piglets and mother all asleep and doing fine, with the exception of Spot who now has a nasty cut on the left flank. We have sprayed with iodine and are keeping a close eye on her. But she is feeding, and with 15 teats to choose from, there are sufficient for her to have her fill too, providing one of the brutes who are twice her size don't boot her out of the way (I say her but realise I haven't thought about sexing them yet!).
(http://i47.tinypic.com/241r1uu.jpg)
A melée of piglets at the changing of the teat side...
(http://i46.tinypic.com/jqkd3p.jpg)
A pile of piglets who have just been reprimanded by their very strict mother for venturing outside while she went to the loo! (Spot is on top - knows where it is warmest).
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great photos :wave:
general question - what % of a litter would generally have breed standard markings? and what influence does the sow / boar have on markings? ( i have the same issue with bagot goats so its interesting for me to discuss.)
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What a cutesy bunch :love:
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@Tamsaddle: No, Margot is just getting larger - I think the first 'service' with the Mighty Raj maybe didn't take (they did spend quite a bit of the two days not quite hitting the mark - it was agony to watch :D ) but he had obviously got the nag of it by the time Lady Penelope was hogging 9 days later. We now expect Margot to pod a week on Monday. But, of course, only time will tell...
@PrincessPiggy: Sorry, I have no idea what the formal expectations are, if there are any. We chose Lady P on account of her lovely features and markings, and she is a pedigree BS. We chose Raj (also of good pedigree) on account of his fine looks, long ears and nose, and his proven ability to produce good sized litters. As far as I can tell, though, Lady Penelope's piglets all are lop eared, whereas the two sows Raj was with before had quite a few who were prick-eared and therefore not breed standard in that zone.
Tonight all is well in the ark. Spot's cut is healing. He (sorry he wasn't a she - my mistake!) is definitely the runt, and about half the size now of the other pigs, but does seem to have nipple No.1 and nipple No.2 - ie both the front nipples. I would expect them to be rich with milk, so I hope he will start to put on weight soon. Tomorrow, if Lady P is happy about it, I plan to supplement his feeding from her if he hasn't put on any more weight, keeping him with her apart from at bottle feeding times.
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I love the ears! They look like bat ears!
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So cute! I love the one with the white bum :) :love: :pig:
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RIP Little Spot (the runt with the white bum... ) :(
BIG character, that little one.
The rest all doing well. I think it may have been a brain haemorrhage that took him in the end.
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Oh no :bouquet:
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Oh No - just when I was looking forward to seeing pic's of him catching up with his brothers and sisters - so sorry :bouquet:
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He's chasing across the sky on a big white cloud as I write. The rest will never catch him up now ;)
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Sorry to hear about Little Spot :bouquet:
Dans
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that big white cloud must be some size with all the flatpacks and ones that don't make it :farmer:
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that big white cloud must be some size with all the flatpacks and ones that don't make it :farmer:
Mmm. Maybe that explains how come it has rained so much here this week :D