Big Mama had her piglets! Our first time farrowing pigs.
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- Big Mama surprised us with her piglets today. We knew she was close but didn’t think it would be today. Come along as we share how it went and what all we had to do.
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After battling Psoriasis for years, I discovered the power of quality food and its positive impact on my skin condition. This sparked my desire to raise my own quality food. So come along with our Family as we transition from urban living to small self sustaining family farm. Learn from both our successes and failures in hopes it may inspire others to try new things. We entered into this journey with no prior experience and hope to provide many laughs and learning experiences. We learned most of how to do what were doing from watching others and hope to be able to provide a similar learning opportunity to anyone else who may benefit from this. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey and we hope it is enjoyable for you and your family.
Congrats. Always good to have a solid family around ya. I can tell you have a great team around ya. 🤜🤛💯
Absolutely. This was certainly that. We even had some really great friends stop by who wanted to experience it and help if needed. We were very fortunate!
That’s awesome! Looking forward to the upcoming videos!
Thank you.
The piglets are too cute! Congratulations..great team work. Stay Safe and Have a Blessed Week.
They sure are. Thank you.
So cute!
They sure are
Congratulations!!!! 🎈🎉
Thank you
yea! looking forward to the new adventures! congradulations!
Thank you.
Congratulations, Stan! I'm sure you made a great birthing coach for Big Mamma. Glad you were able to be there and to experience the process. You're going to have fun watching them grow and become part of the homestead. Are you keeping any/all of them? Hope you have a great weekend...as always, stay safe!
It went as well as I could have hoped. We’re very fortunate. I will definitely keep back 3/4 but I’m undecided of what I’ll do with the 4th. Thank you and we hope you have a great weekend as well.
The placenta takes allot longer because it has to detach from the wall of the uterus completely before being passed. Just never pull it, uterine tears are a vet call. Wonderful birth story, I love your set up for farrowing.
Thanks for the info. The breeder told me there could be up to 4 pass. I never pulled one thankfully so that’s good to know for the future.
@@RockyCreekHomestead I have heard the same with goats! There can be one or one for each. I’ve only ever seen one even with multiples before.
Wait! I am new. What happened to Henry?
It was a crazy situation. We used to have our female pig (Olivia) and Henry together in a large pen under a bunch of oak trees thinking it would provide them shade in the summer. Well I came home from work one day to find him dying. I determined a large limb fell out a tree and landed in him breaking his back. He died within minutes of me coming home. He was my daughters favorite pig so it was a sad day for our household. These piglets have been a huge blessing.
Since this is her first litter, the nesting behavior may not have manifested. Her next litter may have more nesting behavior.
She’s done great, despite not having too much nesting behaviors she’s been fantastic in caring for the piglets. So glad we got her.
Congratulations. Do you vaccinate you kunekune.
We do. The ones that will be raised for processing are given their first dose of vaccines as piglets and that’s all. The ones we keep as breeder or pet are vaccinated annually.
Can you tell me what is the vaccine and where do you get it.
There’s different types you can use, I use Rhini Shield and order from here www.circlecsupply.com/elanco-rhini-shield-tx4-swine-vaccine-100ml.html . This is what was recommended by the first breeder I purchased mine from.
Thank you