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| Well my mom asked me the other day if I was going to add some milk replacer or powder milk to Ruby's diet? I told her I was thinking about adding powder milk a week before her due date and she said that if it was up to her she would add it after the piglets come. So still on the fence with this and it got me thinking at what other time did I ever use milk powder or replacer and on which animal. Like we use milk replacer on the calves that are not strong enough to get milk themselves and sometimes we have to milk their mother down so they can take a hold. When we changed P2's barrow set over from bread alone to hog pellets we used powder milk. So which animal have you used powder milk or replacement milk on and what made you change them to something else?
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| We have only used it once last year when a cow dried up 21 days after giving birth.. Did give the c-section calve a colostrum jump start. It had been a couple hours since birth and she hadn't nursed yet. Once she got started she did great..
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| If Ruby is in good condition, I'd add the milk after the babies come. Otherwise the piglets may be too, big. The extra calories would have gone to them. She will need the extra, when they are nursing, to keep her condition up. Good Luck!
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| Last time P2 and I weighted taped her, she was 408....a few weeks back like at Easter Break. She is let out of her pen every other day after 6 pm for 30 minutes to roam around the hill side and give her a break from being in her pen. She is feed twice a day about 1.5 pounds of feed at each feeding. So I would like to think she is in good condition, but I deal with her ever day. She just now starting to feel out underneath her and my mom told me the other day if she isn't settled then she's loaded with worms. I just looked at her in horror, because we are up to date on worming and I check their stool often to make sure I don't see anything . SO HAPPY THOUGHTS SHE IS SETTLED..... June is going to be a l-o-n-g month for us.
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