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It's been a week so I just wanted to do another little update. Bell's 10 piglets are all doing fine, and the injured one is healing. No more leg dragging, just a limp. She hops after her brother and sisters when they run. Pebbles (Wilma's baby) is doing wonderful. We found two more dead piglets...

The new piglet is doing great so far. I haven't seen her feed today but she is pooping, so she's most likely eating quickly so she can get back to snuggling in her mama's armpit (must be the warmest spot). It was bitterly cold last night, down in the 15 range, but she pulled through. Finally...

The other girl (Wilma) had her second litter as well. Her first was wonderful and went without a hitch. This time around we were worried, as she had a stressful pregnancy. We had a lot of cold, damp weather, and for many weeks she had trouble standing and limped. She had little interest in...

She did expel the placenta, and she is doing better today. Her feedings are longer and she's somehow managed to avoid squishing other piglets. The 10 survivors are currently doing much better, and she is finally letting them feed longer. Today she is up and eating and is a lot more careful...

Sorry for not responding sooner, we had our other sow give birth and it was a long, terrible labor. Only one piglet of hers made it. We treated the wound and for now she's keeping up just as strong and fast as her siblings. She's a tough little girl, it seems, and although that leg drags she...

Thanks for your response! We've been checking on our other sow who's just gone into labor now. Hopefully no problems with her and her little ones. How exactly do we stitch up the leg? In terms of the piglet thrashing, screaming, flailing and doing anything possible to avoid being held down...

She has a full bowl of pig n sow right outside which she's eaten a little from every now and again. Well, she HAD a full bowl - the other sow is chowing down on everything in a 10 mile radius and is going to be giving birth today (this one eats like a... well... a pig.. before she gives birth)...

Hello. This is off from my thread about a mean mama and is about a piglet she injured. A large patch of skin is torn off the piglet's leg, and we can clearly see the bulging red muscle beneath. The piglet can move, but its leg drags behind it when it does. Once its done climbing around it moves...

Thanks for your response! I've been in and out of the pen all day to check on the little injured piglet, and found another piglet with a much smaller, less serious cut on the front of its back leg. Maybe a bit from a sibling, I doubt she stepped on it because she's a massive sow and it would've...

We have a sow who just gave birth to a litter of 12 early Saturday morning (still during the night). 1 was stillborn which was normal, it happens.. She was nursing them when we checked so they did get their collostrum, but since yesterday afternoon she does not seem all too interested in feeding...