For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 23, 2012

I was just going to say something along those lines!

Maybe the mama pig will eat her young if they’re not taken away just after birth…..

No matter how you look at it, that’s a poor choice of words to use when talking to a mother.

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Do sows eat up the afterbirth? (As dogs are reputed to do?)

Sows are usually very good mothers – they have been known to eat their young, but some humans kill their young. When we breed and feed them to be huge, of course there can be smother problems.Like most mammals, sows do eat the afterbirth. There are health food companies that sell dried out afterbirths in capsule form for new mothers – chock full of good stuff!

Will the piglets look like chickens?

Babies come on their own schedule. Maybe it’s a great time because momma is relaxed… It doesn’t always work out for everyone else though… LOL!

I don’t want anything enough to get up at three in the morning.

My grand-daughter was three when she got up in the night to go to the loo, just as their cat began to give birth. GD watched, fascinated (with her parents too) as five small, healthy kittens arrived in the world. At eighteen, she still remembers that night, and it’s done her no harm at all. She may be less frightened of the birth process because of it, who knows? The last-born of those kittens is asleep with me here, right now.

Is this the farm Elly grew up on? Wouldn’t she remember those pesky details?

Cows do the same, but it always seemed they picked the early morning hours of the coldest night of winter, ie -20F. Many calves lost ear tips if not found in time.

Speaking of cows, one lady said she was insulted (and rightfully so) by the comment of why buy a cow if you can get milk free, ie being compared to a cow. Like it or now, we have much in common with the lower animals, physically. (Though one person once said – be thankful the creator got that one [the cow] out of his system before creating Eve!)We are closely enough related to pigs that they supply us with heart valves.As for the cows, the fact is they also operate on apx. 28 day cycle and take 270 days to produce a calf.

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Awake at 3:00 in the morning just to watch pigs being born?!?!? I don’t think so!!!!! But tell me that I need to be awake at that unGodly hour of the morning to go catch a plane to HAWAII and you’ve got my FULL attention and cooperation!!!!!!!!!!;-)

I bet he felt like he won the lottery when those piglets were born.