[Gpdd] [Health]: Luke

[warmbreath]

From: "warmbreath" <warmbreath at comcast.net>
To: <Dukejan1 at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:18 AM
Subject: [Health]: Luke


 Janet,and wheekers, Luke, Lily, and Isabel

 Poor Luke to have been than abused by another pig or pigs but it does
 happen.  Girl Pigs have a number of personalities including  some that are
 Boss pigs and run the whole herd of sows, a male introduced into such a
 herd, even as two, so make sure there are enough food sources watering
 places, toys, and pigloos and such so that not one pig can cover all bases
 at once, and there fore Duke can get his own food, hide out, get water etc.
 and run himself as a separate unit until he and girls mutually get to know
 one another and rearrange who is number 1 pig, number 2 pig, number 3 pig.
 One of my favorite ways to allow them to get to know each other is one of
 those white plastic plumbing Y shaped fittings   you get at the plumbers or
 Lowes or Home Depot.  This device worked best with the boars, but was often
 useful with newly married couples (for me, meaning one or another had been
> spayed)  They would each plug into one end of the fixture sort of like 
> jumbo airliners into a multi jetway at the airport.  The boars , 3 to a 
> cage slept that way, one head plugged into each of the three spokes, they 
> must have liked breathing each others air, otherwise I cant figure it out
>
>
> The wedding of Elizabeth and Square Ed was similar, both, although Ed had 
> been married before and Elizabeth was a maiden from the sows pen, weren't 
> too sure about each other so the both ended up plugged into opposite ends 
> of the plumbing fixture, and pretty soon giggling ensued and soon they 
> were like and old married couple always side by side, so cute.   Mind you 
> they don't fit their entire bodies into the fixtures unless they are a 
> alone, and some times they play follow the leader and follow each other 
> thru, and there were always pigloos available. They just like to plug in
>
> Sandy and Manny the Boar
> Sandy is slowly getting much better thanks to you all