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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