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- Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:39 am
- Forum: Health
- Topic: skinny pig died
- Replies: 2
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Re: skinny pig died
Thanks for the info. They also get all the hay they want and occasional slop/scraps. as far as their living condition....I have a small barn that is spit into 3 sections. each end ha access to their outside pastures and the middle is for me, thier food and hay storage. when I put them together I jus...
Re: Rooting
I have 3 sows and a boar. the sows were seperated. all of them turned both of their pastures into a plowed field (I never would have guessed the pastures had that many rocks in them. by fall all that was present was dirt. I just got my kune's in july so im hoping it was a coping mechanism to a new h...
- Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:31 am
- Forum: Health
- Topic: skinny pig died
- Replies: 2
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skinny pig died
I had a good sow I saw saturday that was really skinny. I go out everyday and feed and this day I noticed she had dropped a lot of wieght bones were poking through and showing. she did get up and eat when I fed her her oats but looked very sickley. On sunday morning she was dead. She had to have dro...
Re: silage
Mine have all rooted up their paddocks, so they are getting hay. they seem to be eating it quite well, they also like playing and nesting in it. my 3 sows, boar and 8 little piglets all eat hay without problems
- Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:22 pm
- Forum: Breeding
- Topic: breeding age of kunekune
- Replies: 1
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breeding age of kunekune
I am new to pigs and recently bought 3 sows and a boar. the 1st sow had 4 piglets and doing good at 1 1/2 months old. the next sow had 6 2 weeks later but 2 died. The boar is in his own paddaock and plenty big for other pigs. the piglets already run loose and go in and get along with him. I am plann...