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Post by pcrowder on Sept 14, 2010 14:22:34 GMT -4
 We had our boar Titan in a separate pen from the 2 sows after we weaned their piglets recently. I noticed the one sows was obviously in heat, and thought that we sure wouldn't be getting any piglets with Titan by stuck by himself. Soooo I put him in with the girls. Now it just dawned on me that if everything goes on schedule, and she was bred then, we'll be having newborn piglets during Thanksgiving weekend! What WAS I thinking???  Guess that's real obvious - I WASN'T!! 'course, it could be worse I guess -- they could be due Christmas Eve!
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Post by capecmom on Sept 15, 2010 16:40:36 GMT -4
Do pigs require assistance during the birth? You're going to be ONE busy(ier) girl!
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Post by pcrowder on Sept 15, 2010 21:49:07 GMT -4
Not usually, but you have to move the sow into a farrowing pen a few days to a week before they're born, which is a special pen with slats on one side with another small pen beside it, and heat lamps over the smaller pen. That way, when the babies are born, they can get away from big fat momma so she doesn't lay on them and squish them! They're usually born really alert and ready to nurse. You just have to keep them warm, and if it's a first-time mama, you have to make sure they all nurse and she doesn't try to hurt them or ignores them. But I can see me having to deal with a HUGE family dinner, out of town company, and having a pig go into labor. Yup, where was MY brain the other day?
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We had our boar Titan in a separate pen from the 2 sows after we weaned their piglets recently. I noticed the one sows was obviously in heat, and thought that we sure wouldn't be getting any piglets with Titan by stuck by himself. Soooo I put him in with the girls. Now it just dawned on me that if everything goes on schedule, and she was bred then, we'll be having newborn piglets during Thanksgiving weekend! What WAS I thinking??? 
Guess that's real obvious - I WASN'T!! 'course, it could be worse I guess -- they could be due Christmas Eve! 