Doris, one of our Berkshire sows, started farrowing this afternoon, delivering five good-sized piglets in quick succession.
It all went downhill after that as the next piglet got stuck in the birth canal.
I had to strip off my shirt and sweater, roll the sleeve of my boiler suit right up, plunge my arm into dilute antiseptic and then carefully insert my hand in Doris’s vagina and turn the piglet so it could pass through the cervix from the uterus. Read the rest of this entry »
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