[Gpdd] [CARE] Babies and their daddy

[DebJonSara at aol.com]

Laura
 
Congratulations on your new arrivals - aren't baby piglets utterly  
adorable?! Your 9 year old is absolutely right though - you need to get their  daddy 
out of there immediately, or you will soon have the patter of more tiny  paws - 
in fact, you may already be too late!!
 
Put the daddy in a cage right beside his family so he can still see them,  
and they him. As soon as the babies are 3 weeks old, you need to sex them, and  
if there are any boys, move them in with their dad whilst they are still 
young,  and move the male cage well away from the mum so they can't smell females.  
Alternatively, you could have daddy pig castrated, but he would need to stay  
away from mummy pig for 3 weeks after his operation to be sure he could not  
impregnate her again.
 
Here's hoping you are not too late!!
 
Debbie and her Dolly Mixtures  

"The animal  shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete 
than ours they  move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the 
senses we have lost or  never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. 
They are not brethren,  they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught 
with ourselves in the  net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour 
and travail of the  earth". 

Henry Beston