Recent content by kjoiner

Just wanted to give you all an update. Babies were 2 weeks old yesterday and all 13 are still doing great. The boys are getting a little rough with each other and we have some scrapes on a couple of faces from fighting. No, they are not fighting over teets, They are running in the yard fighting...

Thanks for the backleg option. I did not know that, i will have to try it. She is in a farrowing crate, where yes the babies can go under the bottom bar and get away from her without her stepping on them or laying on them, We just got back from feeding and cleaning. We removed the other sow to...

OK, went back out to get the weak baby and we had more babies. 3 were dead, not sure if it was the weak one or not. We ended up with 13 alive and 4 dead (we know one was born dead, not sure abot the others). This was her first litter so WOW 17.... All 13 now seem to be doing good. Is it common...

Ok I have a question. We had a litter of pigs born last night (yorkshire). It was her first litter and we had 11 live births and 1 born dead. One was weak when it was born, but was nursing at 3am this morning. At 6:30 when i went to check on him he is laying by himself under the heat lamp and...

I did not know that you could eat pot belly pigs! Interesting! I am currently waiting on my first litter of yorkshires. She was due Friday 6th, but nothing yet. SIGH... I think I will go do some research on pot belly pigs. Thanks

Thank you everyone for all your help. We lost Louie yesterday around lunch. At least now I know he is not in pain any longer.

Freemotion: Dogs have been relocated, that is all I am can say about that! I have been using a 18ga needle for pen-g, but had thought about going to a 20ga, because the 18 is hard to get to go under skin. I am going to call vet soon and see if I can find one that will come help that knows a...

Thanks DaisyChick! That is what I was thinking too. I am not sure that one is going to be functional anyway and I think I had rather go ahead and castrate him completely and eliminate his biggest threat of infection at this point (the way I see it) and get another billy for breeding. I hate to...

Thank you! He seems to be doing better this morning! He was out of his pen this morning (only about 2' away, but still at least he is moving around some) and had went back in pen about 20 minutes later. I gave him some more yogurt and gatorade and then gave him some water. I did not hear the...

Here is my 2 cents worth! I have 2 sows they are pure yorkshire! We just got them this summer and are one year old. We borrowed a boar from a friend of ours to breed them. One is now bred and we are waiting for the other to come back in. Anyway, it cost me about $10 a week to feed them...

Yesterday a dog attacked my male pygmy goat. He is 18 months old and weighs about 70 lbs. They got him pretty bad, there was 4 of them and 2 of hem were small dachsunds. Anyway, the first thing that we noticed and that they had torn out one of his tescticles and the other way has a gash but not...