The pigs farrowed in the months of January and February are generally the most profitable, as they will be ready for the consumption of the separated milk, butter milk, whey, etc.
The age of the young boars and sows has also been reduced at most shows to six months, or the pigs must have been farrowed in the year of the show.
The time of year has a vast influence, a sow farrowing in May will more successfully rear a dozen pigs than she would bring up ten if they were farrowed in the month of October.
The sows which farrowed in January should now be weaned from their pigs, and should be ready to be mated within a few days.
I have a couple of pigs, out of about 75 head farrowed last spring, which seem to have the staggers.
We have five pigs, 17 days old, and when they werefarrowed they had rings around the roots of their tails, and now their tails are dropping off.
The old sows farrowed again in September and early October, and we went into the winter with 162 young pigs.
Fifteen of the young sows farrowed in March, and the other 9 in April, as also did 18 old ones.
The first and most probable was that fall pigs do not grow so fast as those farrowed in the spring.
On the 6th of March Thompson called me to one of the temporary pens and showed me a family of the prettiest new-born animals in the world,--a fine litter of no less than nine new-farrowed pigs.
Three others farrowed eleven each, and so down to one ungrateful mother who contributed but five to the industry at Four Oaks.
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