I seem to be always writing about crops, and other things outside the barn, and very little about the pigs themselves. But last week was a little interesting in the farrowing (maternity) barn.
Last week saw some pretty wide ranging farrowing numbers. The first sow had 16 piglets, which is a fair number, but not that extreme. The next two sows had 2 piglets and 6 piglets each, which is awfully low, but I was able to average them out to 8 per litter, so that wasn’t bad.
Then the last sow had 19 piglets! 2 were stillborn and she laid on one, but that still left 16 good piglets, and of course, she farrowed a few days late, so it was to late to foster any to the earlier farrowing sows. Hopefully she can look after them till next weeks sows farrow, and hopefully I can find a home for a few of them on one of those sows.