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Bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 13524
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 15 10:25 am Post subject: News |
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Yes there's some news. Some good news but tempered with some bad news. When I went out to feed this morning, I saw that Dot had beaten Gladys to having her piglets. I was met with the sight of Dot lying in the doorway, with her head outside in the open air and her backend under cover. There were five piglets suckling on her but unfortunately, when she got up onto her feet, I could see that there were three dead ones that she'd been lying on.
We genuinely expected Gladys to produce first and it was surprise to find that Dot had produced first. She didn't show any signs of farrowing last night and why she decided to vacate her cosy quarters to give birth in the open, is beyond me. Anyway here are the survivors.
Dot is a big, big hefty pig whose eyesight is even worse than my own, so I'm feeling a bit pessimistic as to whether or not we'll raise all five. I fear that she may crush some more of them before things are done. They've found the heat but they still need to come out and run the gauntlet to feed at the milk bar.
As I've already said, I found her half in and half out of the doorway, there was hardly room enough for her, never mind the piglets.
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