[TheCaptain]

This evening Pepper decided she'd get her arse into gear and finally farrow her piglets that were due on the 3rd! Second and third were slow to come then she popped out four and five together with a large piece of placenta, which I assumed was the first horn. Number six came quater of an hour after then number seven with two small mummified piglets and a large piece of placenta which I presumed was the second placenta. Mummy pig settled and started to feed and looked massively content. I stayed with her for 20 minutes to ensure she was settled and feeding etc etc, went in for 20 minutes to warm up and went back out to find she'd passed two piglets, no idea if they were alive when they were born but were dead when I got to them. She passed the second, massive, horn 10 minutes later.

Anyone experienced that before? Can a pig have three placentas? Could I have done anything different?

At least I've got seven very healthy piglets! 

[robert waddell]

the first placenta has come away in two parts 

[trying]

Hi,  :wave:very little goes by the book, our younger sow Lola had her 3rd litter on New years eve, now Lola is always a slow pigger and can take hours between pigletts, she delivered her first at 6pm, big gap then a few quite close, placenta and pigletts together, big gap and by 2am new years morning she had delivered 14 pigletts inc. 3 still born ( 1st & 2nd litters were both 8 pigletts ) more placenta, got up arrangered her bed, had a drink and lay back down, we went for a much needed glass of wine, checked on her at 3am, very settled and all feeding well. When we went to see her new years morning she had had 3 more, dead but at least 1 was probably a live birth, and was still expelling placenta.
All ended well and she has 11 pigletts, you just do the best you can but never know everything.
Regards Ann

[Rosemary]

Well done on seven healthy piglets and a healthy sow 

[Fowgill Farm]

Alls well that ends well so seven piglets is a goodly number as they will thrive.
No two farrowings are ever the same and as Robert has said it looks like she's had huge afterbirths which have come out in parts which is not uncommon. Afterbirths can be ginormous and easily fill a 2 gallon bucket, i always think they look like big lumps of liver and its not unusual for a piglet to be born dead or drown in it.
If she was due on the 3rd she gave birth on the date i would have expected, i always add 4 days onto the due date and i'm usually spot on except once Ruby went 7 days over just to dumfound me!
Anyway enjoy your babies and give Pepper extra fuss.
best mandy