Author Topic: Yahoo the wait is over..............  (Read 9666 times)

kja

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2013, 01:07:23 pm »
6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
we can still learn if we are willing to listen.

HappyHippy

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Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2013, 01:53:46 pm »
6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
Congratulations to you too kja  :bouquet:
Excellent first litter too  :thumbsup: Can I ask what breed she is please ? (and for photo's too obviously  ;D)
I rechecked my diary and found my 'end of the month' sow and 2 gilts are actually due from the 21st onwards (oops on my part, but they are all in already anyway  ;)) so hopefully I'll have some babies ::) piglets  :D soon too  :excited: :excited: :excited:

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2013, 01:58:16 pm »
Well done kja, that's really exciting, good luck with them.
 
And to you HH - how many litters have 'you done' now then HH?
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2013, 02:08:57 pm »
Great news,  :thumbsup:

kja

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2013, 02:20:13 pm »
6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
Congratulations to you too kja  :bouquet:
Excellent first litter too  :thumbsup: Can I ask what breed she is please ? (and for photo's too obviously  ;D)
I rechecked my diary and found my 'end of the month' sow and 2 gilts are actually due from the 21st onwards (oops on my part, but they are all in already anyway  ;)) so hopefully I'll have some babies ::) piglets  :D soon too  :excited: :excited: :excited:

they are british lops. really pleased as her and her sister (she had 8) were covered by a young unproved boar. the one that farrowed 8 on the 2nd was his first cover and with out going into too many details shared his semen between the gilt and my mother  :roflanim: (needles to say mum non too pleased as she does not have much to do with the pigs but i needed a extra pair of hands)
we can still learn if we are willing to listen.

HappyHippy

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Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2013, 04:57:40 pm »
they are british lops. really pleased as her and her sister (she had 8) were covered by a young unproved boar. the one that farrowed 8 on the 2nd was his first cover and with out going into too many details shared his semen between the gilt and my mother  :roflanim: (needles to say mum non too pleased as she does not have much to do with the pigs but i needed a extra pair of hands)
Oh my - poor mum  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
That's great though - hope they all continue to do well and you're blessed with milder temperatures for the next 3 or 4 days  :fc:

And to you HH - how many litters have 'you done' now then HH?
Erm, off the top of my head I think we're up to 14 litters so far, so these next ones will be 15, 16 and 17.
And they're the first litters from my home bred gilts (and their mum, Adelaide the wonder-Kune  ;)) to my boar 'Big Red' (who's not the home bred gilts dad, just incase anyone was wondering  :relief:) - I'm really excited to see how they look, got my sights set on some 'show stock' from these litters so keeping  :fc:

kja

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2013, 06:54:22 pm »
photos too large to post sorry HH......and i am clueless what to do with them maybe if my DD calls in she will do it for me.
we can still learn if we are willing to listen.

HappyHippy

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Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2013, 09:35:37 am »
photos too large to post sorry HH......and i am clueless what to do with them maybe if my DD calls in she will do it for me.
If you have Microsoft picture manager, open the photo with that and you'll see an option to 'edit photo', then choose resize or compress - there's a different setting documents/websites etc, choose the web version then save a copy (that way you get to keep the original big size one if you need to print it or use it for anything else)
Then, all you do is type your reply, select the 'attachments and other options' below thie text box and you'll see the link to upload the photo's.
Failing all that, if you email them to me ([email protected]) I'll do it for you  ;) ;D

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2013, 11:24:33 am »
6 gilts and 5 boars born this morning ......at least she waited for the snow to stop falling. being her first litter we are really pleased.
:thumbsup:  hey Januaries popping out all over the place,congratulations a good litter, looks like we have 4 gilts and 6 boars, (OH checked while i kept mum happy, she's very protective).
Wll start another thread with some new pics.
mandy :pig:

HappyHippy

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Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2013, 03:30:17 pm »
Here are kja's photo's  :thumbsup:
Lovely pink piggies  :love: :pig: :love:

kja

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2013, 05:29:04 pm »
thanks karen  :thumbsup:

the first photo is the litter of 11

the second photo is part way through the litter of 8

the third photo is some of the 8 17 days later.
we can still learn if we are willing to listen.

ppd

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Sutherland
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2013, 05:51:24 pm »
kja, they are lovely. So many great photos of wee piggies at the moment to brighten up our days!
Well done :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Yahoo the wait is over..............
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2013, 05:53:22 pm »
Congratulations kja, they are co cute. Are you there's only 11 in that top one  :D

 

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