The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Stanley on December 07, 2009, 03:16:39 pm
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Hi all,
I bought a trio of Kune Kune's back in October. When I enquired (about 15th October) I was told the girls had been running with the boar for a few days. As I was going away in Jan/Feb I asked for the boar to be seperated until I picked them up on the 24th and the seller kindly obliged. She told me she hadn't seen them "mating" and was pretty sure they hadn't.
I have had them since the 24th and to my knowledge haven't seen them mating OR seen them come into season. Now I could easily miss this as during the week I feed them in the dark in the morning and in poor light in the evening.
If you have stuck with me so far then well done! the question I would like to know is at what stage will they start looking pregnant? I look at them now at potentially a month and a half down the line and I would say they are just starting to look a bit bigger. I didnt know if they wouldnt start showing until now or if they are normally huge at this stage!
I have kept pigs for about 6 years now but as you can tell never bred before!
Many thanks in advance
Stanley
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(Sorry if I've missed you saying but...) how old are they?
They go through funny looking growth stages (imho) where they look abit odd, and have a rather unique shape compared to other piggies.
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Sorry when I read it back it sounds jibberish!!
They are 3 years old and last had a litter back in the summer, one had 12 the other had 7. Fingers crossed she is pregnant but it does mean I will be thousands of miles away in Malaysia when she farrows. I had better train up a midwife!!
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Cancel Malaysia you will have a far better experience being midwife !!!!! ;D
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It was considered HM!!
All the toys were thrown out the pram when I worked the dates out!
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Typical!
I on the other had worked out exactly when I wanted the piglets born, and counted back. Only for the boar to be poorly (See 'Poor boy' thread if you missed it!) Cancel Malaysia...
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