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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Ann and Rob on July 17, 2013, 08:54:09 pm

Title: Soooooo Excited
Post by: Ann and Rob on July 17, 2013, 08:54:09 pm
Margot -Our beautiful lady - is now producing milk.  Happy Days - Bring on the gorgeous piglets
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Post by: Eastling on July 17, 2013, 10:49:26 pm
Exciting keep us posted
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Post by: Mammyshaz on July 17, 2013, 10:56:04 pm
 :excited: summer piglets  :love:
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Post by: Hassle on July 18, 2013, 06:40:12 am
And the pictures are where  :innocent: actually I mean good luck won't be long now
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Post by: Fowgill Farm on July 18, 2013, 09:33:51 am
Good luck with margot :fc:
 
Twinkle had 13 piglets on tuesday night started at 10pm and last one born at 00.15 so not bad going, all thriving and she's such a good mum. Only had one worry that she was breathing so rapidly whilst farrowing because of the heat that she was going to have a heart attack, had to keep cooling her behind ears with vinegar and damp flannels, also dripped water into her mouth to try to keep her cool. All fine now. :relief:
 
Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: Soooooo Excited
Post by: Eastling on July 18, 2013, 06:50:07 pm
Any new?


Congratulations Mandy think I would have done the same thing  :innocent:
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Post by: David @ Hector Blooms on July 18, 2013, 08:49:04 pm
Ooooh, it's like a maternity Ward here, lol, good news though.  Wow, Mandy, that was a fair few piglets, glad that all is okay and seemingly went quickly  :excited:
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Post by: Ann and Rob on July 21, 2013, 07:00:24 pm
Margot finally gave birth to 7 healthy piglets at 3 am!  I am totally in awe of her, what a clever lady  :)
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Post by: Hassle on July 21, 2013, 08:48:51 pm
Hoorah for you
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Post by: Button End Beasts on July 21, 2013, 10:14:02 pm
Well done! Look forward to piccies :excited:
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Post by: Fowgill Farm on July 22, 2013, 10:01:27 am
Many congratulations to you and of course Margot :love:
Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: Soooooo Excited
Post by: Eastling on July 22, 2013, 10:07:21 am
Congratulations well done Margot.  :thumbsup:  Just  need some pictures now :innocent:
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Post by: HappyHippy on July 22, 2013, 05:57:23 pm
Congratulations  :thumbsup:

And yes, photo's sare most defenately required with each birth announcement on the pig boards  ;) :excited: :excited: :excited:
Title: Re: Soooooo Excited
Post by: Ann and Rob on August 02, 2013, 08:48:24 pm
Margot and babies are doing brilliantly.  Tried to download some photos but the image is too big, how do I downsize it as I want to show off the new babies
Title: Re: Soooooo Excited
Post by: shygirl on August 02, 2013, 10:51:59 pm
you can often resize them whilst still on your fone/camera. either before the photo is take or after.
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Post by: Tamsaddle on August 03, 2013, 12:47:15 pm
We have a program called Fine Pix Viewer, but many others will do the same job.   Import and select the photos you want to re-size.    Press File, then Batch Resize.    In the box called "Way of Saving", create a new file for them to go into where it says "Save to".   Then, the crucial re-sizing bit:  change the file type from JPEG-fine down to JPEG-normal or JPEG-basic.   Both of these produce photos with tiny amounts of bytes - not much difference between them either in number of bytes, or quality, in my opinion.    Then, very important, de-tick "Overwrite" and "Delete the original file", otherwise you will lose the good quality, high byte, version for all time.    I leave the top box, called "Re-size" completely alone.   When you have done all of this, press OK and you should get re-sized photos in your new file which TAS, Farming Ads, and similar sites can process.     
Title: Re: Soooooo Excited
Post by: HappyHippy on August 03, 2013, 08:03:06 pm
Or, email them to me ( [email protected] ) and I'll resize them for you and post them if any of the above suggestions sound like gobbldy gook  ;)  :thumbsup:
Karen