Friday, January 19, 2024

Piglet Surprise

Harriet had her piglets yesterday, Jan 18!  Hogrid had gotten into the girls' pen about 4 months ago, so this isn't a complete surprise. She had 8, I think.  We showed up in time to see the last few born!  It was so fun!  She had been nesting with sticks.  So funny!  She is being such a good mom taking care of her new piglets.  Unfortunately, when we came today, she had lost a few.  Ariana also had her piglets.  We tried to give her a separate area to have her piglets, but the two moms ended up together again.  That means I have no idea how many piglets Ariana had and whose are whose. I feel like we counted 8 piglets today.  It's hard to tell.  
The weather is turning cold, so we got some hay to add to their pen. Hopefully the moms keep the piglets warm!  This is not the way we wanted to do piglets... last time we had piglets, it was summer and so hot.  Now, it's winter and going to be so cold!  I don't know what we are going to do with these pigs!










 

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