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[nwwanderer]

There is a boat load of disease issues that cause infertility, do not fight her too long, it costs a buck a day to feed her.

[Netminder01]

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[Birdguy]

Still hoping for you KF been following this thread for months. Post a few pictures of the sow if you get the chance she should be showing even if she took the second heat cycle. I would think that she should have come into heat making it real easy to tell she was not bred. Issues you never figured you would have  .

[jasnt]

One thing to also keep in mind. Sows cycle every 18-21 days.  You know one of her cycles was 10/19 so you can do the math and get a better due date guess. 2nd cycle, 3rd cycle.  If she was with the boar for 90 days that could have been 4cycles.  Lol too bad you can't just candle her like and egg lol

[KFhunter]

ultra sound is how you candle them     expensive so I won't go that route.


the boar isn't lazy, he works her pretty good every day he was in with her.  Always lifting on her belly with his nose and if he's not doing that he's sniffin' the backside.  He did this every day multiple times usually after feeding and maybe a time or two on pasture. She makes a squeal noise and runs off a bit if he even thinks about mounting.  I'm still hoping she pregger, but she's not a balloon.  I took some pics see if I can post em later.

[KFhunter]

Only thing I can think of that I might have messed up is I was feeding them hay I couldn't sell to horse people, had a bad spot on one end of the bale maybe with some mold.  Not a lot, just the exposed ends of the bale that weren't buried in the stack.

Got to reading online and mold can make pregnancy issues or cause abortion.

[Birdguy]

KF, Still nothing? Are you still feeding these pigs?

[KFhunter]

ya I'm still feeding them but they're going out on range here soon.  I thought the sow was going to pop a week ago, had clear discharge and an elongated vulva. 

Boar is not interested in her, I'm going to cut his nuts off and eat him.

[Widgeondeke]

Your gonna eats his nuts? 

[Special T]

 

[Southpole]

When I was in high school we had a piglet castration lesson in our agriculture class one day. A couple of the guys in my class sliced the "remains" and fried them in an electric skillet. They were pretty good, tasted like spam.

[KFhunter]

Your gonna eats his nuts? 

why not?   You've ate lot's of them in your hog dogs and sausages.

j/k

no I ain't eating them 

[Jonathan_S]

When I was in high school we had a piglet castration lesson in our agriculture class one day. A couple of the guys in my class sliced the "remains" and fried them in an electric skillet. They were pretty good, tasted like spam.

That's what Spam is.  Ham and...well you figure it out.  I don't want to get banned.

[luvmystang67]

You're going to eat a boar?  Even if you castrate him and feed him for a while, I still think that might be kinda gross except sausage...  I don't KNOW this, just speculation.

We did a lot of AI work after having to deal with boars for a while.  It is nice because you're able to get some dynamite bloodlines.  Sort of a pain in the butt, but easier than feeding, dealing with and caring for a boar.

 

[jasnt]

We've ate our boars. Pork is pork. We never even castrated ours