Just before lunch, the Other Half drove us to Inverurie so I could buy a 12mm HSS bit to bore new holes in the steel creep. (Fortunately, today is a school holiday in our part of Scotland.) With the new bit, and a chip butty tucked away, I was able to resume work on the [...]
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Tag Archives: farrowing
Needs must with piglets due
12 February, 2012
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Delilah, one of our Berkshire sows, is due to farrow within the next seven to 10 days. However, I dismantled the farrowing pen in the byre to renovate it. I completed the renovations but was planning to refit the creep and trough last week. It wasn’t to happen. I dislocated and fractured my wrist, bringing [...]
Read more Freedom for sow can be death for piglets
14 March, 2011
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Delilah, the Berkshire sow that farrowed yesterday, has just crushed one of her five remaining piglets. Her litter is now to down to four from 13. All five were alive and suckling at 0810. Thirty minutes later and I noticed Delilah had shifted slightly, spilling her bags over one of the piglets and asphyxiating it [...]
Read more Eight piglets die in 12 hours
13 March, 2011
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Delilah, the Berkshire sow we’ve been waiting on, finally farrowed in the middle of the night. She delivered 13 big, solid piglets. By 8.30am, she’d crushed seven of them.
Read more Farrowing in progress
28 February, 2011
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One of our Berkshire sows is farrowing at the moment. Of course, it has to be the wrong sow! We should have had one sow, Delilah, moving out to the field with her litter at the weekend.
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