Senile_Texas_Aggie
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So sorry for your loss.
Carla D-Great new adventures and an Amazing Life
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Carla D
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It is a picture of his cut. I had held it proximated for several minutes before taking this picture. That is only about half of the cut that you are seeing.Yikes, Carla...is that a picture of the pigs cut ? Hope things get better with the piggies....
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Carla D
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I think we are going to brave the crowds today and do some shopping for the kids and grandkids. YUK!
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Carla D
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She sure is. First she was withholding her babies for 5 weeks. We must have miscalculated her due date. And now she only has 5 babies left. We don’t even have another sow to surrogate for her. She was such a fabulous mom her first litter. But she was in a farrowing crate for that birth. We didn’t like the fact that the sows could move around much because they were in the crate.
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Carla D
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It has been really cold here and blustery. We got down to 4 degrees two nights ago. I think this is going to be a harsh winter this year.
Baymule
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I hate losing baby animals. I hate losing any animals, but losing the babies because of various things just gets to me. I'm sorry that Thelma is being a lousy mom this time.
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Carla D
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I really do too. I wish I knew what happened or why Thelma ate two babies overnight.
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Carla D
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Five months, I think.
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Carla D
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Thank you @B&B Happy goats , we did find two of the three missing piglets. They had been buried under the bedding in the pen. We think we may have had too much bedding in there. We added some a couple of days earlier to encourage her to nest/labor. Then it was super cold here last night, around zero degrees. We added a bit more bedding to keep everyone warm. We think the babies couldn’t get away fast enough, and also confused Louise. She may have eaten the missing one or it got buried. Well find out in a day or two when we clean it out. We did move her and her remaining babies into a different stall tonight. We are hoping that resolves our issue. If it doesn’t. I think we will be looking for another farmer that may have a surrogate to feed them for a few weeks.Was just reading to remind myself...once a pig starts killing her piglets...it is likly she will kill the rest and likly she will do same in next litter.....can you take them out and bottle feed all but one ? And keep them seperated from her ? Beats loosing more babies
