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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: JulieS on June 27, 2012, 07:52:25 pm
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Ellen is due to farrow any time now.
Would anyone like to guess when they will be born and how many piglets???
:love: :pig: :love:
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50p says Friday morning and 7 piglets :innocent:
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Will donate 50p to said fund too - having just gone through two Old Spot farrowings one a 6 who looked huge and the other who was small and carried high a 15 - so I will go for 10 on Thursday.
I never win on the horses ;D ;D ;D
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i'll take 12 Saturday morning
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Tomorrow afternoon with 9
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I'll go with 10 piglets Friday morning.
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Tonight, Wednesday or early THursday am and errrrrrr 6 :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig:
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Tomorrow morning (28.06.12) at 3.16 a.m
11 baby pigs. 7 girls,4 boys
I know nothing about pig ;D
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I know a bit....er they taste nice!!!
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Early hours, this Friday - 9 gilts & 4 boars
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Thursday night. 12 piglets :-)
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I predict Friday afternoon and ooooooooh.......13 piglets ;D
No fair though, need to see her girly bits to gauge it better ;) :innocent:
Good luck and hope she doesn't have you hanging on too long :wave:
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10 - early this morning. First one arrived around 2.30, and all born and feeding well by 4.00.
I was going to guess Thursday night and 11 - so she took me by surprise last night. At tea time there wasn't any milk in (not even a drop) and she hadn't shown any signs of nesting......which with Ellen that is the usual sign, she usually builds a nest like mad, taking everything in with her including water bowls, hose pipes, bits of string....anything she can get hold of!
She was very restless late evening and just wanted a cuddle, so I settled down in the ark with her for a bit of sleep then about 1.30 she started on the nest building - her milk was definitely in then and the first piglet made an appearance at around 2.30.
No problems and all doing well. :love: :pig: :love:
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What a lovely picture! Thats made my day ! ;D ;D ;D
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They are very sweet :love: .
I'm amazed how close my guess was ! I was only 3/4 of an hour late and 1 piglet to many.
I've only ever worked with Babirusa ( 2 boars just coming to sexual maturity, not a good idea)
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50p says Friday morning and 7 piglets :innocent:
Presume you're taking on all comers here - so if you're wrong will owe everyone in of TAS 50p each :D
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:wave: :wave:, got the day but never could count!! :wave:
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Oh I'm glad I got it wrong - too much hanging about ;)
Congratulations ! They're beautiful :thumbsup:
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just love the advert tagged on oaklands post that will get the heads scratching :farmer:
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50p says Friday morning and 7 piglets :innocent:
Presume you're taking on all comers here - so if you're wrong will owe everyone in of TAS 50p each :D
Yup goose 'always pays her bets' pimple that's me, give it to you when I see you :innocent: :innocent: :innocent:
Well done! They look like 101 dalmatians except :eyelashes:
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Gosh they are georgous, congratulations!!! PS how do you know when a pig 'just wants a cuddle' ?????? :innocent:
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Gosh they are georgous, congratulations!!! PS how do you know when a pig 'just wants a cuddle' ??? ??? :innocent:
I'm afraid I spend far too much time (not that too much time is possible!!) with my pigs and Ellen was my very first breeding girl, so we know each other very well and she has a 'come and give me a cuddle' face :love: :pig: :love:
Well done on all the guesses everyone :wave:
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so we know each other very well and she has a 'come and give me a cuddle' face :love: :pig: :love:
[size=78%]my dolly has too, except she likes to sit on ur knee too, i sit on the steps in the courtyard and if she is loose, she will come and sit wi me like a dog. i love the tamworth eyes, so thoughtful.[/size]
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Love tamworth eyes too - nippy sweeties we used to call them, small and thoughtful, sizing you up.
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Oh, they are very, very sweet, aren't they?!
Lovely pic, thank you :)
My pigs also let me know when they want attention - sometimes stroking, sometimes scratching, sometimes a shower from the hosepipe. There's a whole repertoire of noises and movements and positions they use to indicate what they want. Watching Lady p with ehr piglets, I realise that the piggy language is very much just that - they communicate with each other through sound and expression and intonation. So, why not with us, too...
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just noticed the advert is not advertising pigs now it is advertising flymos do these adverts change once inserted or is it just i never bother with them :farmer:
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Ellen has mastitis :-[ Called the vet yesterday morning.
She's on antibiotics, anti inflammatory and I'm cooling her with cold compresses and using aloe on there too.
The piglets seem to be feeding OK, I had to top them up a bit yesterday afternoon, but Ellen is doing a bit better today. Although still very lethargic.
Can anyone think of anything else I could/should be doing to help her?
The vets popping in again this evening to check on her.
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just noticed the advert is not advertising pigs now it is advertising flymos do these adverts change once inserted or is it just i never bother with them :farmer:
yes they change each time you visit I think
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Hi Julie
So sorry to hear about Ellen hope she recovers soon. :bouquet:
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Thank you nelson.
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Hi Julie
How is Ellen this morning?
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I just wonder if my Elllens are the only ones farrowing preferabely during suppertime... :farmer:
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Thanks for asking nelson.
I managed to get her up for something to eat and drink yesterday evening and again this morning. She's not very enthusiastic and just lies back down again.
She's letting the piglets feed, but she's just not right yet.
Third dose of antibiotics this afternoon, so hopefully she will show even more signs of improvement.
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I'll send some reiki too - can't hurt after all ;)
Hope she's soon improved mrs :-*
Karen
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Hi Julie
16 days ago our Gloria (GOS) farrowed and had what I thought was a "lot of blood" farrowing. Didn't give her an antibiotic 5 days later she had an infected udder and uterus. Vet came out and she was on a course of anti biotic - today she has become more like her old self. Took a while.
She was very lethargic - I just fed her with treats - lots of comfrey which I have just started growing (she loved it). Apricots and I have a milking goat so the milk went to her. Oh and apples - she has just started back on the hard feed. Her piglets are fabulous. It is so awful to see them not quite themselves. :fc: she will turn the corner.
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16 days ago our Gloria (GOS) farrowed and had what I thought was a "lot of blood" farrowing.
what do u call alot of blood?
we were present with dollys farrowing and on her 8th and 9th (out of 10) piglet, a fair bit of bright blood was coming out of her vulva, dripping quite quickly and making a puddle on the floor. i think we decided it could have been from the umbilical of the piglets which was slow in coming out. the cord did need tying. id say there was about 1/4 teacup blood min. everyone is fine and if i wasnt present, i wouldnt have known as it was quickly covered by straw.
is this normal? or usual?
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Hi
Not sure whether the blood factored in the cause of the infection or perhaps not all of the afterbirths came away. I know think perhaps that it was retained placenta - if my french was better I would ask the vet but he seemed to know what he was doing.
Didn't mean to alarm you pp - all my sows seem to farrow differently. I just had a gut feeling about this one and wish I had given her some anti biotic cover after the birth.
I haven't had a case of mastitis in my sows and would be interested in what Julie is feeding Ellen while she is under the weather.
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Didn't mean to alarm you pp - all my sows seem to farrow differently. I just had a gut feeling about this one and wish I had given her some anti biotic cover after the birth.
no no, it was a bit alarming wen we saw the blood as it wasnt like that with the other piglets or the other farrowings that wev bin there for, but she passed the placentas fine. i was wondering if bright blood loss was common? as i say, we wouldnt have noticed if we werent present.
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Hi Julie
Been away so have missed most of this, hopefully the antibiotics will start to kick in, we had this with Ruby&Clover and i found that wiping her teats with antibac wipes regularly helped or sponging them down with tepid water and making sure her bed is dry, when they have mastitis they are tempted to pee in their bedding and lay in it to cool their teats it doesn't it just makes a breeding ground for bacteria which is not what you want.
Hope she's on the mend.
All the best Mandy :pig:
Ps waiting for Clover to offload her July's due on the 4th she's huge and you can see her poor tum bubbling away, think they're gonna be monsters!
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And can everybody join me in a chorus...
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
You look like a monkey and smell like one too" :sofa:
Only kidding Julie - I just wanted to use the new smiley ;)
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Thank you Karen.....Love the smiley!!!!!
Thank you too Mandy. I'm relieved to say Ellen looks a bit brighter this morning too.
I'm hoping she's turned a corner and on the mend now. I've been very worried about her.
Thankfully I've been doing all the things you've suggested (you're right about the peeing where they are laying too!!!!).
I'm hoping that she has a go at me this afternoon when it's antibiotic time - a good sign they are getting better!!!! :love: :pig: :love: