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Stacey

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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:24 pm Post subject: Can you bottle feed piglets?
13 born in the night - 1 dead, 1 struggling and one so tiny that it's unlikely to survive. If they were lambs I'd bring them in and bottle feed them goats milk. Is there any point doing that with pigs?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:29 pm Post subject:
HardWorkingHippy had a similar situation a few weeks back after a bad farrowing, I think she said the pigling needs very short almost high pressure feeds to mimic what its mum would do. I'll try to find the thread if I can remember what it was called

sean
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:30 pm Post subject:
A quick google suggest yes, and using goat milk. Good luck. Sorry, haven't time to find details.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:33 pm Post subject:
https://forum.downsizer.net/about18426.html&highlight=farrowing heres HWH's thread

Saille111

Joined: 01 Jan 2007
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:36 pm Post subject:
Awwwwwwww! You have piglets! I'm so jealous! Good luck with them. I hope the rest make it. (Can't actually be useful - sorry- the closest I have come to piglets is my Mum's Jack Russell puppey!)

RichardW

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Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 2:42 pm Post subject:

Hi,
We sell goats milk to a local breeder all the time. They feed them by hand with bottles. I would personaly get a nipple bar / buckets system (thats what we do for orphan lambs & our goat kids) so they eat more & free up your time. Use warm milk at first but its easier if you can slowly get them used to cold milk.

Justme

PS they feed 16 odd times per day to start with good luck...... Just as you finish the last one its time to start again (see the benifiet of the nipple bar)

Rob R

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Location: York

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 3:04 pm Post subject:

We're hand rearing one on cows milk at the moment (would prefer goats but since we've not got the latter at the moment), though he was a week old when he came off mother, so he'd got all the goodness from her colostrum. If they haven't had that first feed there's rarely much point.

This one should go back to mother soon but in the meantime he feeds well enough from a 10ml syringe three times a day.

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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Location: Kernow

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 3:51 pm Post subject:

The new neighbour came round just as we were setting up a light box so I've only been able to get back up to the piglets now. The one that looked dead is up and trotting around as is the tiny little runt

This is the sows 1st litter though so we'll keep a close eye on them and if they look like they're failing again I'll nip them down to the house and fed them with the goats milk.

We've already got 5 Tamworth piglets - this makes a total of 17 piglets

sean
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 4:07 pm Post subject:
That's a lot of piglets. How many do you reckon you'll keep? (Sorry, don't answer that at the moment, you're probably a bit busy.)

Stacey

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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 5:05 pm Post subject:
We only need two - 1 porker and 1 baconer

NeathChris

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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Location: Neath, South Wales

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 5:08 pm Post subject:
I normally leave them to the mother to sort out, she knws best what to do. But goats milk will bring them on good. Try not to seperate him to much from the mother as he will lose "his teat" and will truggle later on, meaning you'll more than likely end up feding him for 6 weeks or more. When they are ready to start on food, put a little goats milk on the food, it will encourage them to eat it.

Wombat

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: SW Cheshire

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 5:17 pm Post subject:
This is what you need. I have used it a couple of times, brilliant stuff! https://www.volac.com/content/faramate.asp Wombat PS I am very pleased for you, our first Kune Kune, Squealer, 8yrs old passed away today

marigold

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Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 5:30 pm Post subject:
Congrats on the new babies Stacey . I'd been wondering where you were.....

High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 10:06 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

We only need two - 1 porker and 1 baconer

We only needed five....but kept all ten of our piglets!

Think you can use baby milk as well....SMA

sean
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 07 5:06 pm Post subject:
How are they doing?

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