Post by harry on Mar 2, 2020 20:50:31 GMT -6
As I’ve said elsewhere on here... We just got our 4 Kune Kune pigs two weeks ago. Everything has been going great with them.... exactly what we were expecting. That is until last Friday night.
I got home from work and was walking to the house... right before I walked in I heard a squeal. Not a normal squeal either. Ran over to the girl’s pen and one of them was in the hut (a long A Frame). I turned the electric fence off and went to the hut. Got down and crawled inside. Then I saw it! A piglet!
Had zero clue she was pregnant. Quickly (and in somewhat of a panic) I called the lady I bought them from... her first reply was “Oh No!” She said she’d heard of it happening, but never believed it.... That pigs could breed through a fence. She reaffirmed that the gilt had never been penned with a boar. I said, “Look... I don’t care... just tell me what to do! Do I need to boil water or rip some sheets?”
Laughter wasn’t the answer I was looking for....
She said “Just relax... you only need to worry if a piglet gets stuck”
I replied “Whaaaaaat?”
She said “Yeah if a lot of time passes between piglets you might have to go in there and pull it out”
I quickly scanned through my Lamaze training memories from decades ago... no where in those sorted memories was there any reference to jamming my arm inside my laboring wife....
Long story short... we had 3 healthy piglets. They’re cute as the dickens and they’re Mom is a great first time Mom. All worked out without me having to stick my arm in weird places, or ripping up my wife’s favorite sheets.
Spent the next day cross fencing the girl’s pen and building another A-Frame for the evicted gilt.
All is back to being good on the farm.
I got home from work and was walking to the house... right before I walked in I heard a squeal. Not a normal squeal either. Ran over to the girl’s pen and one of them was in the hut (a long A Frame). I turned the electric fence off and went to the hut. Got down and crawled inside. Then I saw it! A piglet!
Had zero clue she was pregnant. Quickly (and in somewhat of a panic) I called the lady I bought them from... her first reply was “Oh No!” She said she’d heard of it happening, but never believed it.... That pigs could breed through a fence. She reaffirmed that the gilt had never been penned with a boar. I said, “Look... I don’t care... just tell me what to do! Do I need to boil water or rip some sheets?”
Laughter wasn’t the answer I was looking for....
She said “Just relax... you only need to worry if a piglet gets stuck”
I replied “Whaaaaaat?”
She said “Yeah if a lot of time passes between piglets you might have to go in there and pull it out”
I quickly scanned through my Lamaze training memories from decades ago... no where in those sorted memories was there any reference to jamming my arm inside my laboring wife....
Long story short... we had 3 healthy piglets. They’re cute as the dickens and they’re Mom is a great first time Mom. All worked out without me having to stick my arm in weird places, or ripping up my wife’s favorite sheets.
Spent the next day cross fencing the girl’s pen and building another A-Frame for the evicted gilt.
All is back to being good on the farm.
