Saturday, June 1, 2013

Piglets

The Thursday before Mother's Day, our sow had a litter of 10 piglets!  I had checked on her around 10:30 before going to bed. She was fine.  She had eaten her dinner that night and was begging for more.  She had moved some hay around on her house, but she had been rearranging things for about a week.  I set my alarm for 1:00 a.m. to check on her.  When I went out to see her, I didn't expect anything to be different (I had been getting up in the middle of the night to check on her for most of the week).  I was surprised to find she had given birth to all 10 of her babies!