The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Marches Farmer on December 22, 2013, 03:19:42 pm
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Got a GOS sow due to farrow for the third time - now a week overdue - she has an udder like a Holstein Friesian. Bets are now on in the family as to whether she'll farrow tomorrow (60 mph gusts + heavy rain all day) or wait for Christmas Day (the rest of the family are out bellringing for church services all morning, leaving me in charge of cooking the lunch and looking after the farm).
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Good luck for when ever. :fc:
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ahh, think of all the names you could choose....tinsel, holly .... :roflanim:
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Ho HO Ho Gill
Best of luck this is the first xmas in ages that we don't have a litter of pigs due having farrowed on boxing day for the past 3yrs running so know exactly how you feel!
Hope all goes well.
All the best
Mandy & the Fowgill GOS :pig:
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ahh, think of all the names you could choose....tinsel, holly .... :roflanim:
The names I can presently think of don't bear repetition in public!
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Cold, wet and windy would make for more seasonal names. :pig:
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Impeccable timing. The sow ate supper as usual on Christmas Day with no sign of nest-building and when I checked her at 8.30 p.m. she was just delivering the afterbirth. One piglet had wandered off away from the sow and got a bit cold, so I gave it a dose of Piglet Kick Start, put it under the heatlamp and my daughter milked off the sow into a lamb bottle and I kept the bottle teat in the piglet's mouth and just screwed in a replacement bottle as soon as the next lot of milk was ready, so the piglet probably had about four times as much colostrum as its litter mates. We put it under a heat lamp inside for a few hours and by 6.00 a.m. it was charging around the box looking for Mum! Now back with the other10. These are from the rarest of the GOS female bloodlines so an excellent (if tiring) Christmas present.
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many congratulations from all at Fowgill.
marvellous news :thumbsup:
mandy :pig: