Recent content by shawkins

I'll contact my vet ASAP

sorry for the non response. not scared off, just haven't been on the site since last post. So now the pig has been buried what should my next move be? Vet, exhumption and testing? I don't want to exhume a carcass that may or may not have anthrax.

I have one boar and two sows AGH's. Yesterday one of the sows was not as excited about feed time as usual. I was concerned, but apparently not concerned enough, cause this morning she was dead. She had a small amount of blood coming from her mouth and nose and from her anus. I lost another...

thanks, citylady they seem fine right now. momma has been in the nest box a couple of times. still don't have any kits with the other does, but we'll see. I am leaving the three be, and will check on them this evening and tomorrow morning.

one out of three bred does has given birth to three kits! YEA! she birthed them out of the nest box however, so I placed them in the nest box. Several questions arise, 1) should I be concerned with only 3 kits? I've been told that less than 6 will not survive? there should be more born...

these are not their first litters, but they are mine. these rabbits were given to us by a friend and this is the first time I have bred them. I intend to keep adding bedding to the boxes and that is all i know to do. thanks

I have three rabbits which are bread to have kits tomorrow. I put nest boxes in their pens on Thursday (two days ago) but the moms to be have dug out all of the bedding we put in the boxes. I built the boxes from plywood with hardware cloth bottom, lined the bottom with cardboard and filled...

my daughter is begging me for pigs. I wanted pigs anyhow, so I want to get her the pigs. After extensive reading and research we decided on the American Guinea Hog. Since these will be pets for her I want a breeding pair (offspring = meat for me). I have searched high and low and all of the...