Ha ha! What riotus fun farm humor is. A gilt is a female pig prior to having piglets. If my humor is off a bit today there's a reason for it. Mimi, our pot belly pig has had piglets!! She started building a nest out of fresh hay (ha ha! another farm joke) at 6pm Saturday night, started pushing in earnest at 1am this morning and sometime between 4:49 and 6:39 she had 2 piglets! Why don't I know the exact time? Because it seems I slept through my 6:00 alarm. Both are healthy active little squealers. She has passed an afterbirth which could mean the end or not depending on if she's finished or not. Pigs have 2 sides to their uterus and each side has to be done and have an afterbirth.
I am finishing this up at 8:25pm. She has not had any more piglets, so 2 is what we get. Normal would be 5 to 8. It is her first time. This is fine because really, 3 pigs is more than enough to handle. The daddy was an American Yorkshire pig (hog) and he probably weighed around 250 when he went off to freezer camp where he is enjoying an extended stay (lets all sing kumbayah!!) If we were to total up all the packages in the freezer he would probably weigh a lot less now, because we have eaten some. Does this gross you out?
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