[SMarshall]

Evening all

We've just had to have a saddleback piglet put down due to it not having an anus! Poor little thing was four days old before he started swelling up which initially made us think he had a blockage.  On closer inspection we realised that there was no hole :-(

Initially our vet thought a flap of skin might've grown over the opening, however after unsuccessfully trying to rectify the situation the piglet was put down and an autopsy showed that internally the tubes (intestine) from the bowel had never fully grown!

Has anyone else had such an experience? I appreciate that most won't have had an autopsy but I'm curious as to how common this is? Or not?

Thanks
Steph

[robert waddell]

this is more common than not      we have never experienced it with pigs but we have had a calve with the same problem      it died on the operating table     it is one of these things with multiple birth   is it a pedigree saddelback

[princesspiggy]

wot a shame, poor thing

[Dizzycow]

Oh, that's awful. Never heard of such a thing. Does it happen to people? (I'm asking out of genuine interest, not just because some people are full of s**t.  )
Hard luck. 

[robert waddell]

if there was the possibility it would be picked up at the maternity clinic  at the initial check if baby has all its digits and other appendages

[Dizzycow]

I reckon there are a few villagers here who talk out of their anuses. Do maternity nurses check for that too?!

[harepits]

I had it happen with a Manx Loaghtan ram lamb :O(

[SMarshall]

Yes the mum is a pedigree saddleback.  It was one of 11 and the rest are fine and sturdy. :-(

[SallyintNorth]

It can be quite common in lambs - I always check when I'm ringing tails

[Sylvia]

Dizzy, yes it does happen very occasionally in human babies.

[Blonde]

Evening all

We've just had to have a saddleback piglet put down due to it not having an anus! Poor little thing was four days old before he started swelling up which initially made us think he had a blockage.  On closer inspection we realised that there was no hole :-(

Initially our vet thought a flap of skin might've grown over the opening, however after unsuccessfully trying to rectify the situation the piglet was put down and an autopsy showed that internally the tubes (intestine) from the bowel had never fully grown!

Has anyone else had such an experience? I appreciate that most won't have had an autopsy but I'm curious as to how common this is? Or not?

Thanks
Steph

Some time s you get sows that dont have an anus and they put their stools out their vulva...... so you cannot keep them for breeding.

[Sandy]

Dizzy that made me laugh, I have known babies being born without bum holes or mouths or ears etc etc, I worked in the disabled childrens team and in respite care and used to come across some strange things, also, mum used to tell me all sorts of tales when she was a mental health nurse as many babies born with profound difficulties would be put into the asylum....I could write a book "Tales from the Asylum!.

Its understandable that some times when we are developing, things can and do go wrong.  A man who bred Boxer dogs had one pup born with no head,!!!!!!  I suppose as we do not see these things they are a supprise but its amazing what can be done medically these days...   In my head I remember a common phrase I heard ALL the time in Leicester, "you chat *hit man"!!!

Nature, beautiful and there for a reason!!