Well it has been mixed emotions this week. Had 16 piglets castrated on Monday, including our new babies, and have since had two losses from our Mangalitza/Potbelly crosses. The first little man was stood on in the night presumably by mum thus pushing his intestines through his wound hole and sadly died, and another male from the same litter got shut out by mum on Tuesday night, who laid accross the entrance of their shelter and left him out in the cold. No matter how long we do this, deaths just never get any easier and I shed so many tears - silly I know but I just can't help it.
Anyway the first litter are thriving and mum is loaded with milk so the young are growing very fast. The second litter although now depleated in their numbers are also doing very well and all five piglets play with eachother. They slip through the fencing to visit eachother and jump and role around - it is just lovely to watch them. Their enclosures are outside the bathroom window, so no mangazines in our loo thank you very much - our very own live
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Litters 3 and 4 are not going to arrive for another week or so, one of them being a sister to the other Potbelly/Saddleback cross mums, and the other is actually mum to all three. She is pure Vietnamese so it will be interesting to see how her babies turn out in comparison to her daughters.
The forth sister who is somewhat larger than her siblings, having taken size wise more after her Saddleback father than her portly Potbelly mum Miss Piggy, has just mated with one of our Tamworth boars Boris, so very interested in tasting her offsprings meat at some point in the future. Vietnamese meat is superb as is Tamworth so a combination of the two should be very special.
Anyway, will keep you posted so
HAVE A NICE DAY 
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