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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Fowgill Farm on January 18, 2013, 11:04:41 am
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Twinkle had 10 babies last night from 8.20pm onwards all done by midnight.
Mum & babies all doing well, one liitle gilt wreckling but holding her own.
pics herewith before you all shout
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb220/fowgillfarm/Image0216.jpg (http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb220/fowgillfarm/Image0216.jpg)
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb220/fowgillfarm/Image0215.jpg (http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb220/fowgillfarm/Image0215.jpg)
Stayed up all night with her as she was a bit ferocoious with the first two babies, OH came in at 11pm and helped me latch the 8 that had been born on, then he buggered off to bed and she had another two mixed in a monumnetal afterbirth.
Announcements in the Times, Tatler, Country Life to follow ha ha :-J
mandy :pig:
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WOW :thumbsup: , they look about a week old already ;D . Lovely litter, well done Twinkle and you :excited:
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Congratulations, Mandy and well done, :thumbsup:
What does "wreckling" mean?
They look a lovely bunch :pig:
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Congratulations Mandy :thumbsup: and well done twinkle. Those mammary areas look very full, plenty of milk at the bar :D :pig: :pig:
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Congratulations twinkle :thumbsup:
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What does "wreckling" mean?
runt but think thats a derogatory term for such a cutey! :love:
Mandy :pig:
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Well done you - and that pig :thumbsup:
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Yippee :excited:
They're gorgeous Mandy :love: :pig:
Well done Twinkle and well done you :thumbsup:
Keep us posted and updated with piccies please ;)
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They look lovely, so incredibly cute. Sounds like it was a good job that you were around! A perfect score of 10. Where's my winner's dosh?
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All 101 of them! Hope you keep them all Fowgill, little polkadots ;D
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Awwww beautiful ;D
Congratulations to you and Twinkle :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Really beautiful - all pink and spotty!!
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hi mandy and twinkle - congrats :trophy: they look so chunky and spotty and just - plain lovely :bouquet:
lorraine and david
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Absolutely gorgeous :love: Well done Twinkle and mandy of course!
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Wow, hard to believe they're newborns. Lovely :thumbsup:
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6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
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6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
Congratulations to you too kja :bouquet:
Excellent first litter too :thumbsup: Can I ask what breed she is please ? (and for photo's too obviously ;D)
I rechecked my diary and found my 'end of the month' sow and 2 gilts are actually due from the 21st onwards (oops on my part, but they are all in already anyway ;)) so hopefully I'll have some babies ::) piglets :D soon too :excited: :excited: :excited:
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Well done kja, that's really exciting, good luck with them.
And to you HH - how many litters have 'you done' now then HH?
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Great news, :thumbsup:
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6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
Congratulations to you too kja :bouquet:
Excellent first litter too :thumbsup: Can I ask what breed she is please ? (and for photo's too obviously ;D)
I rechecked my diary and found my 'end of the month' sow and 2 gilts are actually due from the 21st onwards (oops on my part, but they are all in already anyway ;)) so hopefully I'll have some babies ::) piglets :D soon too :excited: :excited: :excited:
they are british lops. really pleased as her and her sister (she had 8) were covered by a young unproved boar. the one that farrowed 8 on the 2nd was his first cover and with out going into too many details shared his semen between the gilt and my mother :roflanim: (needles to say mum non too pleased as she does not have much to do with the pigs but i needed a extra pair of hands)
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they are british lops. really pleased as her and her sister (she had 8) were covered by a young unproved boar. the one that farrowed 8 on the 2nd was his first cover and with out going into too many details shared his semen between the gilt and my mother :roflanim: (needles to say mum non too pleased as she does not have much to do with the pigs but i needed a extra pair of hands)
Oh my - poor mum :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
That's great though - hope they all continue to do well and you're blessed with milder temperatures for the next 3 or 4 days :fc:
And to you HH - how many litters have 'you done' now then HH?
Erm, off the top of my head I think we're up to 14 litters so far, so these next ones will be 15, 16 and 17.
And they're the first litters from my home bred gilts (and their mum, Adelaide the wonder-Kune ;)) to my boar 'Big Red' (who's not the home bred gilts dad, just incase anyone was wondering :relief:) - I'm really excited to see how they look, got my sights set on some 'show stock' from these litters so keeping :fc:
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photos too large to post sorry HH......and i am clueless what to do with them maybe if my DD calls in she will do it for me.
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photos too large to post sorry HH......and i am clueless what to do with them maybe if my DD calls in she will do it for me.
If you have Microsoft picture manager, open the photo with that and you'll see an option to 'edit photo', then choose resize or compress - there's a different setting documents/websites etc, choose the web version then save a copy (that way you get to keep the original big size one if you need to print it or use it for anything else)
Then, all you do is type your reply, select the 'attachments and other options' below thie text box and you'll see the link to upload the photo's.
Failing all that, if you email them to me (kkjmckay@aol.com) I'll do it for you ;) ;D
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6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
:thumbsup: hey Januaries popping out all over the place,congratulations a good litter, looks like we have 4 gilts and 6 boars, (OH checked while i kept mum happy, she's very protective).
Wll start another thread with some new pics.
mandy :pig:
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Here are kja's photo's :thumbsup:
Lovely pink piggies :love: :pig: :love:
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thanks karen :thumbsup:
the first photo is the litter of 11
the second photo is part way through the litter of 8
the third photo is some of the 8 17 days later.
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kja, they are lovely. So many great photos of wee piggies at the moment to brighten up our days!
Well done :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Congratulations kja, they are co cute. Are you there's only 11 in that top one :D