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I will try and see if the nearest office that accepts livestock will see her (they're about 45 minutes away). In the meantime, I'll update that the limping is a lot better. At one point the bottom of her hoof felt very hot, and we tried giving her an antibiotic injection. To no avail, despite...

Hello, been a long time since I had time to be on. Unfortunately it's not with great news. Our gilt, Pebbles (Wilma's daughter) is badly limping. A few months ago it started after she was attacked by younger feeder pigs who have since gone to piggy paradise, but it 'healed'. Then she was...

Sorry, I thought I had responded to this earlier but I guess it didn't send! Bell was fine the day after my last post (she had a final injection the day before) and showed no signs of being sick. She's been healthy since. None of our other pigs have been ill. Thanks for your advice! Seems like...

As it turns out Bell is not keen about having a thermometer shoved up her butt and promptly flipped out and we had to get out of there. We'll give her another dose of antibiotics because other than that small amount she has eaten the day before she has since refused to eat. She'll drink lots...

No mucus. My dad gave her a shot of penicilin while I was at work. She was up a few hours later and ate and drank. Will see how she is in the morning. :)

Her poop is solid and her breathing does sound normal. No rasping that I can hear.

I wish I had a little more information than I do but unfortunately when we went about getting out 'sick animal starter kit' we forgot the rectal thermometer... but anyway. Bell, 2 years old (I believe), maybe 3 depending if I'm able to count, has been lying down since yesterday evening...

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I found it and changed it! hehe. The piglets are doing great. They're running around and playing. I bet I'll see them playing outside within a few days just by how active and strong they are. The mother is also doing great. She's been eating, drinking, and up walking around since she came out...

Also I realized I titled the thread wrong (should've been gilt XD) Anyway... here's a picture! http://s9.postimg.org/3o7elslu7/20160813_151344_1.jpg

Okay so... she had her piglets today. Completely unexpected. This morning she ate and laid down in the dirt and hay outside... I checked her for milk this morning and there was nothing... We left for 3 hours and came back to 4 baby piglets! They were already dried off and were nursing. Three...

Yep! Still trying to find that camera. I misplaced it a few months ago. I believe she is in that 200+ pound range, at least... she is now anyway! We're checking her sister for any signs of pregnancy as well just in case.

Thanks for that info. :) I can't remember the size of our other three pigs when they had their first litters, so I'm not sure I can compare, but when I get the picture maybe other people will have an idea.

I haven't posted here in awhile due to business but I've been around... and now I have a question. Our young mulefoot/tamworth cross, one of Ginger's piglets, is pregnant! She is showing in her belly and teats already... the problem? We didn't breed her. She was in an enclosure with her...

Me too! It's one of my favourite foods... after a nice big steak stacked on a pile of rice pilaf...

Thought I'd share a recipe or two... and this is one of my favourites. I love a rich, creamy chowder as opposed to a thinner one, and I had a hard time finding a recipe that fit my own standards for lots of vegetables (the ones I liked), and none of the ones I don't! Namely: celery. I like...

The teacher is great. The material is easy but the homework website is just driving me crazy. Very slow, often down, and almost no information on what you did wrong and how to fix it - which is something a professor would explain if they graded it manually... sometimes it comes down a simple...

I have never seen a raccoon in my life, but since they are common in Maine I didn't want to discount the possibility. Would a raccoon be strong enough to carry a 12-14 pound duck over the fence and into the woods? The ducks are very nervous around our dog (who has never gone after anything...

We had something grab out pekin duck, Fatty, out of the enclosure yesterday. It either jumped the ~4 foot fence or went through the hot wire on the bordering pig pens... or went straight through the back woods where we previously had a wire but removed it to do some work. She was bitten twice...

We just lost Fatty... I looked outside a little bit ago, and two ducks were somehow outside the fence, and the other three were in... all the females were quacking loudly (alarm call). Fatty was nowhere to be soon. I kept looking around, and out in the woods I saw a white shape. I went over and...