we had planned for ruby our ginger & black with 2 piris to have a litter but she keeps coming back into season, any tips? roxy doesnt have piri but gave us 10/10 piglets all with piri! They are very addictive, looking forward to when we can have another litter but need to see how the market is for this lot and not keen on having piglets in winter!!
My wee boar has 2 piri's and mum has 1, we always get a mix - some have 2 (usually the boys) some 1 and one so far with none. It's strange the way some have and some don't lol! But in terms of breeding gilts/sows the piri's are less important than the underline and number of teats. It's great when you get good results for both though
What Bloodline is Ruby ? I'm slightly concerned with my young Andrew boar (dam was Kereopa) and I did have another Kereopa who had apparently had a litter previously, but neither her previous owner or me could get her in-pig again.
I know there was an issue with fertility on the Jenny bloodline too, perhaps there's been a cross over of the bloodlines somewhere resulting in problems ? I don't have any suggestions, apart from making sure she's not too fat or trying a different boar
Sorry
What age is she ? The Berkshire boar would be a good cross, there are some up at Insch or down by Arbroath I can give you details for if you want to try them. Maybe it's just going to take a different boar to 'kick start' her conception.
Wow they have grown sooo much since we came over - great to see them out & about Karen. How's the slim-line Princess Portia doing? Can't wait for her to have babies now
Portia's doing fine
She's so friendly and definately keeping Red in check
The worrying news is that the Berkshire's are back in season - so Red's not done what he was supposed to
We're going to spend a bit of time in the field when she returns to season, we'll get Red kinda wound up and frisky and then help him get the idea of what he's supposed to do (hopefully he's just a bit slow on the uptake and once he has a go he'll be at it all the time) Will let you know how it goes, it's sure to be entertaining lol! When I told Bruce my plans he said he'd be needing rubber gloves
I have no idea what he thought I expected him to do, but it wasn't involving gloves
Take care,
Karen x