Just born yesterday
This little guy was born yesterday morning.
He is being bottlefed every two hours. He weighs just 2.4 pounds. I think we are all afraid to name him, since we aren't sure he will survive. He is ridiculously cute and absolutely perfect.
His mom is one of the Iowa flood survivors. Unfortunately, all of his siblings died either before birth or just after being born, and his mother has rejected him. Now, his mother survived a flood, has pneumonia, had surgery, is emaciated and nobody even realized she was pregnant (due to her poor body condition) so it's not really surprising that the litter failed to survive. As for the rejection, we suspect that due to her life as a brood sow she has been conditioned to ignore her litters. In case anyone doesn't know, breeding sows are kept in gestation crates which are so small they don't even allow the pig to turn around. The crate keeps her separate from her piglets, allowing them to nurse but preventing any other interaction between mother and babies. The babies are forcibly weaned at just ten days, have their tails cut off without anasthetic, and then are taken away to be raised for slaughter. The piglets are killed at just six months of age. The mother is immediately re-inseminated to begin the process anew. Pork production
He is being bottlefed every two hours. He weighs just 2.4 pounds. I think we are all afraid to name him, since we aren't sure he will survive. He is ridiculously cute and absolutely perfect.
His mom is one of the Iowa flood survivors. Unfortunately, all of his siblings died either before birth or just after being born, and his mother has rejected him. Now, his mother survived a flood, has pneumonia, had surgery, is emaciated and nobody even realized she was pregnant (due to her poor body condition) so it's not really surprising that the litter failed to survive. As for the rejection, we suspect that due to her life as a brood sow she has been conditioned to ignore her litters. In case anyone doesn't know, breeding sows are kept in gestation crates which are so small they don't even allow the pig to turn around. The crate keeps her separate from her piglets, allowing them to nurse but preventing any other interaction between mother and babies. The babies are forcibly weaned at just ten days, have their tails cut off without anasthetic, and then are taken away to be raised for slaughter. The piglets are killed at just six months of age. The mother is immediately re-inseminated to begin the process anew. Pork production