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[Carla D]

Sorry to hear about the piggy and the cat Carla. Sounds like the cat has a bad infection.

That’s what I’m thinking about the cat. I have three antibiotics here. I just need to figure out if one of them is safe to give him.

The piggie was holding his own this morning. He actually tried to keep Hamlet from drinking all of the milk. Peanut has more than his share spunk and “balls”. I’m thinking the fact that he has survived for almost two weeks he just might make it. He had the “momma from hell” and now has hamlet “trying” to run the show. Our other runt, Half Pint is no dummy either. He used to sneak out of the pen by going under the gate because he could. He had all of the free feed he could ever want and nobody was going to stop him either. We have never had any luck with our runts of the litter to this point. Both of these little guys know where the food is and nobody will stop them even if they tried. This is the little squirt who found his free meal ticket and used it to his benefit. Half Pint.

And now we have Peanut who seems to be unstoppable as well. He’s the little black one on the far right.

He’s in the middle on this bottom picture.

These are the smallest runts we’ve ever had on our farm. Neither one is a “petunia” if you know what I mean.

 

[Bruce]

The piggie was holding his own this morning.

Sounds like he deserves extra TLC, he's fighting.

 

[goatgurl]

those little guys are sometimes hard to get raised. hope peanut makes it.

 

[Carla D]

Sounds like he deserves extra TLC, he's fighting.

He sure does. He needs a bath so badly. He might feel a little better if I were to wash him up. I have a heating pad to warm him up with. They also still have two warming lamps which they love sleeping under. He’s such a good boy. He loves being held. Doesn’t squeal up a storm. Not even when he got a few injections of lidocaine and a stitch. He’s the mellowest and quietest piglet we’ve ever had.

 

[Carla D]

those little guys are sometimes hard to get raised. hope peanut makes it.

I sure hope so too. I’m thinking that since he’s almost two weeks old and does appear to be growing that he’s going to make it. Some nights/days May tougher than others for him.

 

[Carla D]

Yesterday we expanded the area our three youngest piglets have had to explore. They seem to be really enjoying life. The image below is a screen shot of a really long video that wasn’t any good except the first 2-3 seconds. No piggies in this picture.

But their world has gotten a whole lot bigger, and they love laying next to the gate where the 7 week old piglets are being housed. They are just too small to join them at this time.

Then it donned on me how big my kids are getting. They are to big for their play gym to be in there, even though they loved it. I kept a small section of it. Then I put a couple of old tires, a few logs, and some chunks of concrete slab in there for them to climb on and explore. They seem pretty intrigued by their new setup. Since they are now to the size and weight that it causes me pain to lift them onto their house where we feed only one or two at a time I’m needing to find a solution to this problem. They are completely weened of their milk replacer. They are still getting bottles of warm water and the attention that comes with the bottle. I think I’m going to try and find nippled lamb bucket. I don’t think they are drinking out of their water dish yet. They are quite spoiled. But they suck down the water. Either they are that thirsty or they need the special attention they get when I feed them individually.

This my be my solution to bottle feeding the goats water. The nipple is a bit bigger than they are used to. But, they will catch on when they get thirsty enough.

 

[Latestarter]

What B&B said. They are old enough to not "need" a nipple...

 

[goatgurl]

what B&B and LS said. if you worry about them not drinking get one to sucking on your finger and pull your hand slowly down into a bucket of water till their lips touch it, they'll figure it out quickly.

 

[Latestarter]

Was typing in a decidedly "animal cruelty" joke post, and thought better of it... I already get myself in trouble without trying to... Makes no sense to go out of my way to incite flaming responses...

 

[Carla D]

Was typing in a decidedly "animal cruelty" joke post, and thought better of it... I already get myself in trouble without trying to... Makes no sense to go out of my way to incite flaming responses...

Let me have it. Or message it to me. I’ve learned to appreciate your humor. A whole lot better then I did the first couple of days.