The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: chickens on May 31, 2008, 08:32:18 am
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Can anyone help please - we have 4 gos piglets, all have been very healthy, extremely good weights etc.
They have free range all over our land and are fed farine d'orge, vegetables and some bread. Yesterday one of the piglets did not have much appetite for the first time (they are nearly 13 weeks old) and last night she did not seem able to stand on her legs. We tried to move her in to a separate pen from the others but she got very distressed and managed to walk in to her normal sty with her mum. She seemed stronger. This morning she has come out of the sty but is still sitting on her back legs - not walking normally. Now all the piglets still live with their mum as there has been no sign of her chucking them out or getting fed up with them. We wonder if the mum or one of the others has hurt a leg on this piglet - we have read the illness part about deficiencies on pif site but do not think it is that. Naturally we will call the vet out but as we are not sure she hasn't just strained a leg we were giving her a bit of time to see.
Anyone else experienced anything similar please? All the other piglets are running around as normal.
Many thanks
:pig:
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Just let the vet decide. It could be anything. No point in trying to compare other peoples experiences in this sort of case. Let the expert decide then the treatment will be the right one.
Good luck
Kate :pig:
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Thanks Kate but she was having us on. I think in reality one of the others or indeed her mum had given her a shove and she was complaining as today she is running around - thankfully!
Thanks again
Nicki
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Glad to hear all is ok. Without seeing the problem it is vertually impossible for one of us on here to really say what is wrong.
What has happened of course is now you have seen it and you will know next time. The learning experience goes on and on - the joy of smallholding.
Kate :pig: ;)