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Ellie-May

Ellie-May

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Hi everyone,

Hopefully this is the right place, but I just want to make sure that baby sows weight is okay. I was just a little concerned about the 2kg weight loss this evening, but I health checked them both and could not find anything to be concerned about. I know it is not a lot of weight, but as they are babies I would like some advice. I am probably worrying over nothing, but I have attached a picture of the daily weigh ins that I do to highlight their progress. They are 5 weeks tomorrow.
 
Ellie-May said:
Hi everyone,

Hopefully this is the right place, but I just want to make sure that baby sows weight is okay. I was just a little concerned about the 2kg weight loss this evening, but I health checked them both and could not find anything to be concerned about. I know it is not a lot of weight, but as they are babies I would like some advice. I am probably worrying over nothing, but I have attached a picture of the daily weigh ins that I do to highlight their progress. They are 5 weeks tomorrow.
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Ellie-May said:
Hi everyone,

Hopefully this is the right place, but I just want to make sure that baby sows weight is okay. I was just a little concerned about the 2kg weight loss this evening, but I health checked them both and could not find anything to be concerned about. I know it is not a lot of weight, but as they are babies I would like some advice. I am probably worrying over nothing, but I have attached a picture of the daily weigh ins that I do to highlight their progress. They are 5 weeks tomorrow.
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Oh they do have names btw lol but when I started this is what I did as it was easier and they didn’t have any names at the time so I carried on
 
That looks like nice steady weight gain. I find that they have little growth spurts, they suddenly put on a load in one day, and not so much another day. 2g (not 2kg as you said in your post ! 😁) is not a significant weight change it literally is a couple of poops!
What sex are they?
 
pig in the city said:
That looks like nice steady weight gain. I find that they have little growth spurts, they suddenly put on a load in one day, and not so much another day. 2g (not 2kg as you said in your post ! 😁) is not a significant weight change it literally is a couple of poops!
What sex are they?
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Yeah I did find that! Some days it would be the same and the next like 5g-10g (sorry about kg lol) they have never lost weight though, but they seem perfectly fine. They are both sows, Luna & Sol
 
Ellie-May said:
Yeah I did find that! Some days it would be the same and the next like 5g-10g (sorry about kg lol) they have never lost weight though, but they seem perfectly fine. They are both sows, Luna & Sol
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Lovely. See what they weigh tomorrow, l am sure you will find they have gone up. It would be a bit odd if they both lost weight on the same day, more likely to be your scales playing up! I have had major panics sometimes thinking my pigs have lost weight, and l just hadn't zeroed the scales properly 🙄
 
pig in the city said:
Lovely. See what they weigh tomorrow, l am sure you will find they have gone up. It would be a bit odd if they both lost weight on the same day, more likely to be your scales playing up! I have had major panics sometimes thinking my pigs have lost weight, and l just hadn't zeroed the scales properly 🙄
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Yeah it could be that or they weren’t in the centre or something. They are happily eating, drinking etc so no signs of anything
 
pig in the city said:
Lovely. See what they weigh tomorrow, l am sure you will find they have gone up. It would be a bit odd if they both lost weight on the same day, more likely to be your scales playing up! I have had major panics sometimes thinking my pigs have lost weight, and l just hadn't zeroed the scales properly 🙄
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Just weighed them again and they were around 234/235 mark so either I read the scales terribly wrong or something. The scales are brand new and I even weighed a bag of sugar and the weight was correct so their not broken. I must have read it wrong
 
Ellie-May said:
Just weighed them again and they were around 234/235 mark so either I read the scales terribly wrong or something. The scales are brand new and I even weighed a bag of sugar and the weight was correct so their not broken. I must have read it wrong
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It happens. Scale gremlins! Phew!
 
My scales are new and they have a mind of their own!
I weigh Christian daily. I zero the scales, then just as I am just about to put him in the scales suddenly the scales say 4g. This happens on average 3 times before I can get them to stay on zero while I add a piggie!
 
Betsy said:
My scales are new and they have a mind of their own!
I weigh Christian daily. I zero the scales, then just as I am just about to put him in the scales suddenly the scales say 4g. This happens on average 3 times before I can get them to stay on zero while I add a piggie!
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It’s a nightmare lol. I was just thinking that there is nothing wrong with them so it must be the scales, I might have just read it wrong or not zeroed them properly
 
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