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can 3 week old babies survive?

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a mother has sadly passed on and has left behind her 3 week old babies, will they be ok without mum? i have them in for the moment with another mother (she has babies from 5 weeks old....
 
Hiya,

Baby boars have to be taken away from their mum at 3 weeks so I would imagine these little ones will be ok. Do check the sex though and ensure the boys are away from the surrogate mum. You can always supplement the babies with goats milk (I am doing that at the moment with some babies) as it is very rich and creamy. I would think though that unless particularly underweight the babies would be fine.


Let us know how you get on.
Helen.
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I am sorry that the babies have lost their mum. At 3 weeks old they should be weaned, so as long as they are eating solid food they should be ok. Definitely good to put them with another piggie though, they will find the company of an older piggie comforting. I hope they do well.
 
If possible put them with an older pig. Occasionally some baby pigs need to learn how to eat "proper" food and they do this best by copying from another pig.
They should be fine. What happened to the mother?
 
Hi,
I got my 2 Guineas almost 2 years ago when they were just about 3 weeks old.The only problem we had was that they were supposed to be 2 girls & one of them turned out to be a male hmmmmmm!We were very lucky that we found out early enough to separate them before coco could get pregnant. (smudgie was castrated at 6months old) They are both fine...eating me out of house & home & are very very spoilt!!
 
not so good update.....
we've lost two babies but the other one has been given a clean bill of health by the vet this morning, he thinks it was a respitory infection that killed mum and she'd passed it on to babies (the last baby to die was this morning, id taken her to the vets last night but she passed away in the night, the little texelish fluffy one :()

so this little baby is going to be spoilt rotten, after all his mum went through being passed from pillar to post around a college dorm, i hope she had a bit of 'love' here before she died, and his poor brother and sister :(
 
I'm so sorry you lost two of the babies, what a sad few days for you and those guineas. Fingers crossed the remaining little one thrives.
 
I'm kicking myself that i didnt realise sooner, i should have took all 3 to the vets when mum died, theres was a slight discharge around her nose and it just didnt click until the vet was questioning me last night.
But littly is thriving, he's been adopted by his aunt and will stay with her for a few more days, then him and his supposed half brother (I'm guessing half brothers as 'dad' was in both both mums when they arrived) will be getting there own space :)
 
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I'm kicking myself that i didnt realise sooner, i should have took all 3 to the vets when mum died, theres was a slight discharge around her nose and it just didnt click until the vet was questioning me last night.
But littly is thriving, he's been adopted by his aunt and will stay with her for a few more days, then him and his supposed half brother (I'm guessing half brothers as 'dad' was in both both mums when they arrived) will be getting there own space :)
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Sorry to hear about mum and babies. :(

Are the baby boars rumble-strutting yet? If so, you just need to be careful that they don't get the aunt pregnant. However, we got two females off a friend because one had given birth to three boars (they unwittingly bought her already pregnant). She didn't separate them until 4.5-weeks, because she was told by an RSPCA nurse that they wouldn't be big enough to mount the mum or aunt and get them pregnant. Therefore, she shouldn't separate them until 6-weeks. Contrary to popular opinion, there may have been something in this, because luckily, they didn't get either the mum or the aunt pregnant. However, this is only one incidence and I think most people like to be on the safe-side and separate at 3-weeks. [Generally, they're more likely to get their sisters pregnant because they're small enough to mount.]
 
Oh I'm ever so sorry about Mum and the babies! Glad the little one left is doing well though, I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for him!
 
I am so sorry that you lost two of your babies - sadly, URI can kill very quickly, especially the ones with a low immune system.

I'm sending my best wishes to the little boy and hope that he will thrive with his new freind!
 
I am sorry you lost two of the babies, good luck with the little guy remaining, hope he thrives
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