We thought you'd all like to hear about our past few days (Tuesday/Wednesday) and our 2 seperate rescues :{
Tuesdays Rescue
Helen recieved a call from a lady who needed to give up a 'colony' of 12 pigs, At he start it was 3 boars and 9 sows. I went with her and met he husband, he got out of the car and opened his car boot to find a pig had escaped and was sat on top of the boxes, he said thats a boar its out of that box.....so back in that box this 'boar' went on its own. In total we were given 2 cardboard boxes and 2 plastic boxes, they type you can store under a bed.
We drove back to mine to sort them out and re-box to find the 'boar' was infact a pregnant sow, one plastic box had 2 apparently sows which actually was 1 boar 1 sow! the other plastic box had a very heavy pregnant sow.
As for the cardboard boxes one had a beautiful himi sow, very young herself with 2 sow babies and a 5 week old Peru X sow. We opened the last box to find 3 boars but one had collapsed from the heat, probably from being in a car boot and our weather up here Tuesday was very hot!
Helen battled with him but he died in her arms 8... another boar was looking iffy but he has pulled through.
So this rescue infact ended up being 7 sows and 4 boars = 11-1 = 10 (she kept 2 in the end)
Wednesdays Rescue
Helen recieved a call from the RSPCA asking if we could help with a seizure of 69 pigs from the North East which had been left to fend for themselves in an allotment along with 60 rabbits which someone else took.
11am Wed they turned up, I was there to help poor Helen. So carrier after carrier was brought into her poor house and the sort out started.
I have never smelled anything so bad as these poor pigs.
In the end we ended up with 50 pigs (not 69) and only 8-9 were adult boars which SusieQ very kindly took to someone near her.
The rest were a mixture of tiny babies to heavily pregnant sows. We found the lactating sows and they were placed with all the babies. Boars who were old/big enough to not need mum were removed and there were 5 beauties x)
Some of these pigs had very small ears, some were chewed. Some have hairless stomachs. There was a few really skinny but pregnant sows, and 1 very skinny Abyssinian. There were a mixture of pure Abyssinians, crested, pure blacks but the majority are Tri's.
Unfortunatly we lost a sow, who just didn't look right since she got there, head was twitching and back legs splayed with an open pelvis so we monitored her, She ended up fitting so was rushed to the vets who performed an C section but the 6 babies were hairless and big so she was trying to abort obviously. Poor girl came back but not long after passed away. The whole experience was just too much but Helen did give her the best chances. RIP little Sow.
So now the work continues, we did start bathing yesterday and Ivermecting but some will take a while to pull round.
Well done Helen, once again you are a star
Luckily already all pigs are settled in foster homes
Tuesdays Rescue
Helen recieved a call from a lady who needed to give up a 'colony' of 12 pigs, At he start it was 3 boars and 9 sows. I went with her and met he husband, he got out of the car and opened his car boot to find a pig had escaped and was sat on top of the boxes, he said thats a boar its out of that box.....so back in that box this 'boar' went on its own. In total we were given 2 cardboard boxes and 2 plastic boxes, they type you can store under a bed.
We drove back to mine to sort them out and re-box to find the 'boar' was infact a pregnant sow, one plastic box had 2 apparently sows which actually was 1 boar 1 sow! the other plastic box had a very heavy pregnant sow.
As for the cardboard boxes one had a beautiful himi sow, very young herself with 2 sow babies and a 5 week old Peru X sow. We opened the last box to find 3 boars but one had collapsed from the heat, probably from being in a car boot and our weather up here Tuesday was very hot!
Helen battled with him but he died in her arms 8... another boar was looking iffy but he has pulled through.
So this rescue infact ended up being 7 sows and 4 boars = 11-1 = 10 (she kept 2 in the end)
Wednesdays Rescue
Helen recieved a call from the RSPCA asking if we could help with a seizure of 69 pigs from the North East which had been left to fend for themselves in an allotment along with 60 rabbits which someone else took.
11am Wed they turned up, I was there to help poor Helen. So carrier after carrier was brought into her poor house and the sort out started.
I have never smelled anything so bad as these poor pigs.
In the end we ended up with 50 pigs (not 69) and only 8-9 were adult boars which SusieQ very kindly took to someone near her.
The rest were a mixture of tiny babies to heavily pregnant sows. We found the lactating sows and they were placed with all the babies. Boars who were old/big enough to not need mum were removed and there were 5 beauties x)
Some of these pigs had very small ears, some were chewed. Some have hairless stomachs. There was a few really skinny but pregnant sows, and 1 very skinny Abyssinian. There were a mixture of pure Abyssinians, crested, pure blacks but the majority are Tri's.
Unfortunatly we lost a sow, who just didn't look right since she got there, head was twitching and back legs splayed with an open pelvis so we monitored her, She ended up fitting so was rushed to the vets who performed an C section but the 6 babies were hairless and big so she was trying to abort obviously. Poor girl came back but not long after passed away. The whole experience was just too much but Helen did give her the best chances. RIP little Sow.
So now the work continues, we did start bathing yesterday and Ivermecting but some will take a while to pull round.
Well done Helen, once again you are a star
Luckily already all pigs are settled in foster homes
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but on the other hand much admiration to you for saving so many needy piggies xxxxxx
