WELL...THE MORNING AFTER UPDATE!
WE HAD THE VET OUT AT 6.30 LAST NIGHT AND SHE HAD A TEMP OF 102 SO WARM BUT NOT TOO BAD VET SAID (I FOUND A VET WHO'S DAD WAS A PIG FARMER!!SHES GREAT!) SHE WAS NOT GIVING ANY MILK AND WOULDN'T GET UP (UNTIL A GREAT NEEDLE WENT IN THEN BOY DID SHE GET UP!)NOR WOULD SHE EAT! VET GAVE PEN-STREP AND A PAIN KILLER! I HAVE 3 DAYS OF PAIN KILLER AND BOTTLE OF PEN-STREP TO GIVE HER FOR NEXT 5 DAYS!....VET SAID GET SUGAR INTO HER,JAM SANDWICH!ANYTHING TO GET GLUCOSE UP BUT SHE WASN'T HAVING ANY OF IT LAST NIGHT...
WE HAD TO BOTTLE FEED THE PIGLETS..ALL 12 OF THGEM..GOOD JOB STILL GOT ALL THE ORPHAN LAMB STUFF KNOCKING AROUND!
ANYWAY THIS MORNING AT 5AM WE WERE DOWN AGAIN TO BOTTLE FEED..ALL PIGLETS STILL LIVELY AND MOBED ME FOR MILK..MUM SEEMED MORE WITH IT AND HAD DEFINATLY BEEN OUT IN THE NIGHT TO DRINK SOME SUGARED WATER SO THAT WAS GOOD.THE JAM SANDWHICH AND A SMALL BIT OF APPLE HAD GONE IM HOPING INTO HER AND NOT A RAT!.....WE HAD ALSO GIVEN HER A BARLEY MEAL IN MILK MASH IN A BOWL TO TRY KEEP CALCIUM LEVELS UP IN HER ASWELL AND THAT HAD BEEN KNOCKED OVER AND IT LOOKED AS IF SOME HAD BEEN EATEN..
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SO BETTER THAN YESTER DAY,THINK PAIN KILLERS HAVE KICKED IN,SHE DID GET HALF UP AND WAS GRUNTING AS IF GIVING MILK BUT NO MILK COMING OUT YET,SHE IS STILL BAGGED UP SO VET HOPES IF SHE RECOVERS IN NEXT DAY OR SO SHE WILL STILL GIVE MILK BUT FOR NOW ITS THE BOTTLE...THEY SOON LEARNED TO USE IT!!I GOT MOBED THIS MORNING,CANT FEED UM FAST ENOUGH!!!LOL..NOT ENOUGH HANDS OR BOTTLES!