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Saturday morning August 5th our sow delivered her first piglets beginning at 2:17 am. Since she started acting very unusual Friday evening we knew to expect babies in the middle of the night. She had been laying down all afternoon and would only get up every once in a while to try and push.
Our little girl loves Peppa-Pig end was sooo exited! :)
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We were worried about the sow rolling over and crushing the babies and we had heard that some might get stuck inside her and need to be pulled out by hand.
In the end she did just fine and probably wouldn't have needed me there anyway. All I ended up doing was move the new piglets away from hear rear a bit and make sure they didn't crawl underneath her before they had found a nipple to suck on.
Out of 12 piglets total the third one was underdeveloped and didn't live for more than 15 minutes. While that was sad to see, it happens often and that's what's called the runt.
Within minutes after being born the piglets are able to walk and see.
The rest of the piglets were nursing within minutes.
They probably nursed most of the night and by the next morning they were already wandering around and exploring in between nursings.
Now it's a week later. They are all alive and healthy, play most of the day and have just about doubled in size.
Definitely cute and another first for all of us! :)