Betsy
Anniversary Herd
I thought I'd update Little Wheakers with how Patsy is doing so I sent them this email this morning.
Just thought I'd give you an update on how Patsy is.
Patsy has settled in well and knows the routine. She lost some weight since arriving here (around 100g) so I took her for a vet check (well 2 actually and a scan!) and was found to be very healthy apart from a couple of ovarian cysts. They are causing no symptoms so the vet and I have decided to leave well alone and not operate unless she really needs it. We put it down to stress after having 3 homes since July, meeting 2 new piggies and generally feeling out of sorts because of this. Patsy now has an extra breakfast of grated carrot and/or apple and oats and in the evening she has a syringe feed of SS Recovery Plus (which she loves and has around 25ml of!) and she is gradually regaining the weight.
Patsy is a happy and confident piggy and must have been well loved in her old home. She isn't too keen on being picked up and runs away which I take as a good sign that she is happy telling me exactly that she doesn't want to be picked up. When she does allow me to pick her up she enjoys a quick cuddle before getting restless and wanting to be put back with her friends. She loves a snugglesafe and is usually the first to hop onto one.
She likes forage and she has some every day with a small pinch of Pro-C on the top shared with Christian and Meg to help build up her winter reserves as she is in an unheated garage. As well as the snugglesafes there are snuggle sacks, snuggle tubes, fluffy beds and boxes stuffed with hay to help keep all three of them warm.
Thank you for letting me adopt Patsy she is a lovely piggy.
This is the reply I received. It made me really happy.
You have literally brought a tear to my eye! I cannot tell how happy I am that pasty has found such an amazing retirement home with you and Christian, and Meg.
It's a sad fact that reportedly 70% of sows will suffer from ovarian cysts at some point in their lives.
We love to hear how our piggies are getting on, thank you for taking the time to let us know.
Just thought I'd give you an update on how Patsy is.
Patsy has settled in well and knows the routine. She lost some weight since arriving here (around 100g) so I took her for a vet check (well 2 actually and a scan!) and was found to be very healthy apart from a couple of ovarian cysts. They are causing no symptoms so the vet and I have decided to leave well alone and not operate unless she really needs it. We put it down to stress after having 3 homes since July, meeting 2 new piggies and generally feeling out of sorts because of this. Patsy now has an extra breakfast of grated carrot and/or apple and oats and in the evening she has a syringe feed of SS Recovery Plus (which she loves and has around 25ml of!) and she is gradually regaining the weight.
Patsy is a happy and confident piggy and must have been well loved in her old home. She isn't too keen on being picked up and runs away which I take as a good sign that she is happy telling me exactly that she doesn't want to be picked up. When she does allow me to pick her up she enjoys a quick cuddle before getting restless and wanting to be put back with her friends. She loves a snugglesafe and is usually the first to hop onto one.
She likes forage and she has some every day with a small pinch of Pro-C on the top shared with Christian and Meg to help build up her winter reserves as she is in an unheated garage. As well as the snugglesafes there are snuggle sacks, snuggle tubes, fluffy beds and boxes stuffed with hay to help keep all three of them warm.
Thank you for letting me adopt Patsy she is a lovely piggy.
This is the reply I received. It made me really happy.
You have literally brought a tear to my eye! I cannot tell how happy I am that pasty has found such an amazing retirement home with you and Christian, and Meg.
It's a sad fact that reportedly 70% of sows will suffer from ovarian cysts at some point in their lives.
We love to hear how our piggies are getting on, thank you for taking the time to let us know.
There's a load of boxes in the garage still awaiting our attention. We were still organising the stuff that moved on moving day when we had all the stuff from storage brought home a few weeks later. Then Christmas, birthdays and vile weather got in the way of more sorting, and we haven't done any more since. Some of my cookery books are I hope in there somewhere along with other missing bits ... It took us 3 weeks last November to find my son's school bag which had somehow got packed in a box!
I guess it means I can stay longer with this class. They can be very rowdy though, but I like them. Good training 
