Little help please

[Mouse14]

And I was wrong there are definitely two girls. Got a nice good look this afternoon while they were snoozing while momma was eating! I'm still feeding her like I did when she was pregnant. Hopefully it's not too much or too little. The piglets are growing like puppies LOL. They have those great big bellies. Some have so much hair!

 

[Latestarter]

Typically when any momma is nursing, her calorie intake requirements go up. The more milk needed, the more calories needed. It takes a lot of energy to produce milk. IMHO, If she looks like she's struggling to keep up production, loosing weight, run down/tired (more than normal) then up her protein and amount of feed. If she looks like she's putting on weight, getting fat(er), then cut her back a bit. From my understanding, PBP's are Lard pigs, so they pack on fat readily. Grats that you have 2 females. Are you keeping any, selling them? How's that little runt doing?

 

[TAH]

I am getting jealous of your little guys.

 

[Mouse14]

We will be selling them. Though the runt has grown on me quite a bit. I never got am exact amount to give the piglets iron, but I have been putting them in dirt 1-2x a day. If they start declining any health wise I guess I'll give .5ml to see if it helps considering their size. They seem to be doing terrific though. Nice and plump. All but the runt of course. He's growing, just slower

 

[Mouse14]

I'm unsure what kind of needle to even be using. Could really use that advice. The woman I bought my pigs from never gave iron shots bc they were born outside in the summer. She's no help with that unfortunately :/

 

[Mouse14]

I'll try to get new pics of them tomorrow. Momma has taken it upon herself to pee outside the box I provided so I have that to clean first thing tomorrow. I have to change the dirt out of the box bc I found poop from mom in it -_- she's been a handful the last couple days. I can't wait till the babies can touch grass! They'll love it. They're so silly! They all try and run from me I've noticed the squealiest piglets are all the biggest!

 

[Latestarter]

Not sure what sized needle, but I'd have to guess very small

 

[mysunwolf]

22 gauge needle works well for piglets Though I have to say we never give iron if fresh dirt is provided, and ours grow very well.

 

[Mouse14]

I'm going to assume it's normal for their poop to start being harder to remove as they get older? All of them are a little strainy. I added dirt to their actual bed and they prefer it that way so I think I'm going to remove the pool of dirt. Several of them were eating bits of dirt! They seem to find it intriguing from their bed lol. I took more pics. Will try and upload them

 

[Mouse14]

I had been putting them in dirt once or twice a day since about 2 days old, so for 3 days now they don't have easy access to it on their own since the pool is too high. Even momma seems happy at my idea of dirt in the bed lol. She is such a dirt pig . My male just prefers stealing what she likes. He must be so lost being by himself 24/7 lol