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Death of a pig

3 November, 2012 by Stonehead 5 Comments

I came home from a rugby coaching course at 3pm today. I went out for a quick check of the animals, all the pigs and all the poultry looked okay, so I went inside. At 5.30pm, I went out to feed the pigs and found one of the finished gilts—due to go to slaughter in […]

Pigs

Christmas, Crofting, death, Livestock, Pigs, postaweek2012, Smallholding, vet, veterinary

Harvey is fully fit again

30 July, 2012 by Stonehead 2 Comments

I took Harvey, our Border Terrier, to the vet today to have his booster vaccinations and get him checked as it’s now a month since he came off the last of his medications for Auto-Immune Hemolytic Anaemia (AIHA)/Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (iMHA). The vet was new to the practice, which gave Harvey the opportunity to […]

Dogs

Auto-Immune Hemolytic Anaemia, Border Terrier, dog, iMHA, postaweek2012, vet, veterinary, Working dog

A Border Terrier enjoys the dawn sun in a frosty field.

Harvey is on the mend

2 December, 2011 by Stonehead 5 Comments

Harvey, our Border Terrier, is finally on the mend. He came down with Auto-Immune Hemolytic Anaemia (AIHA)/Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (iMHA) in February, which left him lethargic at best and near death at worst. Since then, he’s had a protracted course of medication that’s finally paying off.

Dogs

Border Terrier, Dogs, iMHA, postaweek2011, veterinary

The gilt's ear was almost torn off when the sow stepped on it.

Sow tears piglet’s ear

14 June, 2011 by Stonehead 8 Comments

I checked Doris’s litter of Berkshire piglets just after noon today and all were well. I went back at 2.30pm and discovered she’d stepped on one. Fortunately, the piglet was still alive and had no life-threatening injuries. Unfortunately, its ear was almost completely severed. The injury had occurred at least an hour earlier as it […]

Berkshire pigs

Berkshire pigs, Crofting, Livestock, Pigs, postaweek2011, Smallholding, veterinary

The injured piglet had developed an abscess.

Injured piglet still hanging on

24 March, 2011 by Stonehead 7 Comments

Daphne, one of our two Berkshire sows currently with litters, stepped on a piglet last Friday. The piglet suffered a serious gash where its right rear leg joined its abdomen, but didn’t appear to have more serious internal injuries. I cleaned the wound with iodine spray, injected the piglet with 1ml of Ultrapen LA, and returned it […]

Berkshire pigs

Animal Health, Berkshire pigs, piglet, Pigs, postaweek2011, veterinary

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