[fairhaven]

Please can I have some advice on taking the sows from the weaners?   We've just wasted most of the day & they are now back with the sows in their original paddocks...      Tried taking Dorothy out & penning her up, by the time we had got her penned up all of her piglets had broken out of their pen & were running riot round the field, Got them all back in just in time for Dorothy to bust out of her pen & grunt at her babies so of course they all bundled through the stock fencing again to go to her... After about an hour of constant and pointless rounding up & penning, they were all doing just as they please as they had discovered the walkway leading to the ponies paddock...     By this time the OH had started to get stroppy & I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so ended up with me getting the giggles & him glaring at me over the top of the sow.
Needless to say we do not have any electric yet... But YES, I KNOW... we need to get some!!

Failing that I could really do with some idea's or tips on separating her from the piglets before I end up sleeping in the pig pen     

[Malc]

We separate them indoors - it's so much easier! The weaners have a big pen to themselves, while the sow goes in a smaller pen separated by a concrete wall. The sows sometimes get a little restless, but the weaners act as if nothing has happened. It seems to help if you are giving them a good ration of grower feed by the time the sow comes out. Once outside, an electric fence is an absolute must.

[robert waddell]

it may seam obvious but better fencing is a must even with scare wires they would still get out if they are determined    and when they are shocked  they are harder to get back in
we have never had any escapes like this but the sow will come back to as close as she can to them   but normally for only two days   then settles   if the weaners are hungry they will break out
 
in your situation you can only laugh or rant and rave     better fences should be top of your list

[Berkshire Boy]

My weaners are in a stable with the sow and then she is taken out and put in a pen with the boar and a couple of sows. She never looks back and they are quite happy without her. Never had a problem separating.

[Beewyched]

I also farrow my girls inside - makes my life so much easier & I like to use a heat lamp for at least the 1st 2 weeks. 
My KK sows start weaning their themselves litters by about 5 weeks-old, laying on their udders & refusing to nurse their piglets until the prodding & squealing gets too much for them    by 8 weeks the mums are all too glad to get out & leave them behind 
As already posted - good fencing makes such a difference too 
   

[domsmith]

We farrow in stables and when we wean, the piglets are locked in and the sow is taken back out to the fields and boar.

the sows have never come back to the piglets and after a few day the piglets are found a pen.

hard physicall barrierss are needed to stop the little buggeers getting eveerywhere.

good luck

d

[Fowgill Farm]

We farrow in stables and when we wean, the piglets are locked in and the sow is taken back out to the fields and boar.

the sows have never come back to the piglets and after a few day the piglets are found a pen.

hard physicall barrierss are needed to stop the little buggeers getting eveerywhere.

good luck

d

Ditto, the sow needs to go somewhere she can't hear & see her babies, we leave the babies in the farrowing house for a few days after taking her out to make sure all is well with them that they're eating & drinking ok, they then get wormed and marked up then its off to an outside pen of their own which by this time the sow has usually forgotten about them.
HTH
mandy 

[Tiva Diva]

We move ours from the farrowing pens (outdoors) to another outdoor pen out of sight and smell of the piglets. We have electric fencing with sheep netting outside the electric wires and haven't (yet) had a piglet outbreak: if they can't hear or smell mum they don't seem to be bothered.