[Gpdd] [Care] Saying girl pigs]

warmbreath imwarmbreath at netscape.com
Thu Jan 10 20:11:35 EST 2008


re:
> You said in your mail: "girl pigs really need to be
> spayed, such a hi percentage get hormone or tumor or other problems in 
> their
> female parts".


yes Mary Louise, The first symptom may be thinning hair on the flanks 
similar to what you get with mites, except its not mites. Second the start 
drinking allot, then they drink incessantly like they are burning up( they 
are, they lose weight too) Then they just start to waste away, one breeder I 
talked too called it wasting away disease like their is no cure. In past 
years we had jillions of conversations and found out 2 cures one is  spay, 2 
hormone treatment. One vet told me that women are the only mammals in the 
animal community required to keep baby making equip. after its use is over, 
it just causes high amount of trouble including cancer. Then I started 
studying rabbits a year ago and found out its even more true with them and 
they recommend spaying as soon as possible with tumors starting at about 2 
years.  So if you haven't had gp's girls living past 4 or 5 you may not see 
it but over that its very high if you have a large enough population to get 
a decent sample size.  Spay your lady pigs, my vet, whose a super surgeon, 
says he even prefers spaying girls rather than boars in a herd because the 
girls incision is higher up and gets dirty less and the males have much 
fewer complications later in life
Best regards
Sandy 





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