Our Berkshire sows can be scattered across the hillside. Some can be asleep. Some can be grubbing up roots. Some can be sunbathing. Some can be chatting up “the boy”. But no matter how busy they are are and no matter how quietly I try to fill the feed buckets, whenever I venture out with [...]
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Tag Archives: sows
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.
Read moreQuiet, pigs at work
16 August, 2010
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I spent most of the day digging, or rather cutting, the hole for a strainer post at the top of the hill. Whenever I walked up or down the hill, I was serenaded by the stentorian snores of three of our Berkshire sows who were intent on doing their jobs of growing every larger. In [...]
Read moreFeeding hand-reared piglets
15 February, 2010
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Vetnurse emailed to ask for advice on hand rearing piglets as she knows someone who is attempting to feed a piglet on cow’s milk, which she thought was a poor idea. I agreed that straight cow’s milk is not a good idea. First, and most importantly, did the piglet suckle from the sow in the [...]
Read moreWaiting
20 May, 2009
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Delilah, matriarch of our herd of Berkshire pigs, is due to farrow within the next 48 hours but, as usual, she’s making us wait. She’s absolutely vast, she’s bagged up, she’s built her nest and… nothing yet. She’s been like this for more than 12 hours now but her milk is yet to come in, [...]
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