More on the Piggies

9/09/07 - The Lord's Day - After Dinner. Back with a special "2-fer", your second post of the day. Well, the 7 piggies that were born are all still alive, but when we went down to check on one of them, it was in distress. It had two pretty severe wounds on it and its tail was gone. I don't know if momma rejected it and attacked it, or if it got caught between momma and the part of the wall she tore off, but the piglet was pushed out of the "nest" and momma was ignoring it. So I went in there and got it, and now Danielle and the children are taking care of it. We cleaned the wounds and put antiseptic on it and then painted them with pine tar. We are keeping the pig clean and Tracy is feeding it with an eye dropper every 20 minutes or so. We can't get any colostrum until tomorrow, so for now that will have to do. I put the probability of survival at about 20%, but we'll see how it goes. The other six are doing really well, and when I went down to check them awhile ago they were all out and about and quite lively. I pray they all do well.

Hope all is well with you all,

Michael Bunker