So, the day after my last post we had piglets. Tasty, our black sow had 10 live births... 7 of which had to be hand delivered by Adam. It was a rough, long night. We weren't exactly prepared for delivering piglets, but we learned a lot.We're hoping that she only had such a hard time because this was her first set of piglets, but we'll find out with the next batch. Fingers crossed that she does well with her next set, because if she doesn't then we will probably eat her. Then 3 days later Yumyum our white sow had piglets too. She had 11 live births none of which needed help. She pigged out wonderfully and even let Grace come spend time with her in the pig house while she was laboring and let Grace let her and see the piglets. It's exciting to watch piglets being born, getting to wipe them down and hold the tiny little guys knowing in 5-6 months you could be eating them, funny to look and see little hams running around.
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