[Mrs Snoodles]

Our young large black boar is in with 3 gilts.  One mating has already occurred, the second today with a different gilt.  I had noticed yesterday that the previously mated gilts' sides were a bit bloody. Superficial wounds only and easily cleaned and treated with iodine.  I assumed it was the boars tusks that were doing this and that possibly they were growing outward.  However today I witnessed the second mating and saw that it is his hooves, when he is gripping on, that are hurting the gilts.

The gilt was standing nicely for him, most of the time. However, when he tried to inch forward occasionally, she squealed a bit and I could see a new wound.

I've seen some videos of pot bellied pigs having their hooves filed, but a LB is a bit if a different story 

He not causing masses of damage at the moment but I wonder what will happen as he grows. 

Has any one else come across this sort of problem?

[robert waddell]

good legs produce good sex         his back legs are they square to the side and not triangulated to the middle    if it is young it should not have problems with either tusks or hoofs growing to much
 
when he walks is he Cris's crossing his back legs

[HappyHippy]

We had an older Large Black boar here serving our sows, I noticed a similar thing - not so much wounds, but the hair was rubbed off their backs a bit by his trotters (took ages to grow back too !)
If you don't fancy trimming and filing his feet (it works well if there are 2 of you - one to rub his belly/feed him and keep him lying down and occupied, while the other does the pedicure  ) you could try keeping him on concrete for a while, it rubs the 'nail' down naturally 
HTH
Karen 

[robert waddell]

it would need to be the clays at the back of the foot    if it were the trotters  they would need to be bent at 90 degrees

[P6te]

Hi Robert,

when he walks is he Cris's crossing his back legs

Out of interest, what is the significance of Cris's crossing his back legs?

[chickenfeed]

Hi Robert,

when he walks is he Cris's crossing his back legs

Out of interest, what is the significance of Cris's crossing his back legs?

when selecting pigs for breeding and showing you want good strong legs one in each corner that may sound strange but when some pigs walk they plait (cris cross) not someting that you should want, what you want is a pig with a good strong walk legs in line.

[Berkshire Boy]

I used to know a girl who could ............ better not don't want to be banned.

[Mrs Snoodles]

Finally back on. Really rubbish connection over the past couple of days, so frustrating.

Anyway, thank you for all your replies.  Robert, The boars legs don't crisscross thank fully. I checked all the others too, they also seem to have ' four corners'...what a really good description

I think popping him on concrete may seem the best way forward.  He's not a belly rubbing kind of pig.  He just get a tad over enthusiastic and tends to knock you around a bit.  One of my hopefully pregnant sows pushed me yesterday (again, overly enjoying her back scratch) and I stumbled in the mud and now have a dodgy ankle. 

Berkshire Boy...gone way WAY over my head.  Poss a bit too naive here in sunny Suffolk (blush)......