PIGLETS!!

Our moms, Harriet and Arianna, had their piglets on the same day!  Monday evening we did a quick ranch check and there they were with piglets everywhere!  They were still having them!  Clark and Lorna got to see a few be born!  They were so small and cute!  So crazy!  The poor moms were so hot and tired.  Luckily, they were separated from Hogrid, our boar, but they were still together in one pen.  That means we really don't know which piglet goes to which mom.  Also, the moms like to lay together and the risk of laying on a piglet is much higher now!  I will say this is quite a crazy situation.  To add to it these moms are both pretty young to have piglets so they may have a harder time making milk.  The extreme heat doesn't help either.  Oh my, there are so many risk factors!  

The first day there were 15 born and by the next day there were 16, but some piglets had died.  After a couple of days we were down to 12.  It was getting kind of serious.  I was getting worried and luckily Nichole Smith was coming over with her kids to check out the piglets.  She helped me work on the moms and make sure that they had milk and work to the get piglets nursing.  It was a very exhausting morning.  We did lose a few more piglets and after a couple of weeks we ended up with just 4 piglets.  It was sad to lose so many, but also more manageable for us.  Hopefully next time we don't have an extreme weather situation!