07/22/2026
Another late night spent out in the barn. Our last gilt farrowed yesterday in the absolute miserable heat so processing baby pigs was on the agenda for tonight.
Unfortunately, she did not have quite such a smooth farrowing as the others, but had 6 live that are doing great. We aren't feeling so positive about how things will turn out with mama as we could tell tonight she still was very uncomfortable and hadn't eaten anything yet. After working the babies, we attempted to help her out, but were unsuccessful so we provided some antibiotics to try and manage infection. We will continue to try our best to help her out, but unfortunately there's not a whole lot that we can do that makes sense for both us and her which is another very unfortunate reality of raising livestock.
