Baby Pig. Now What?

[Zork]

Oh......, it looks so cute. I was going to say that whomever cat that was would be a good start in finding the owner since I would think that they both know each other. Wait, I remember one of my parents "finding" a puppy one time too. Anyway, I vote for the pet issue. BB looks so content now that his furry friend is around to play with and watch over him. BB will eventually think he is a cat, hmm...., 450 lbs of bacon on top of one of the new cars in the driveway doesn't sound so good, lol.

 

[Andy in Gap]

The only thing that pen needs is one of your signs out front. "Another custom home by Eddie Walker":thumbsup:

 

[MMagis]

I hope you've started on a bigger pen, because he'll outgrow that one in a hurry. You find out when the day he's not there anymore.
They're cute for a while, but they aren't pets.

 

[backdoor]

Our local vet says buttermilk is easier for very young animals to digest.

 

[beppington]

That piggy looks to be about all worn out. Rough journey getting to Eddie's, I guess.

 

[jinman]

Here's a picture of Eddie taking his pigs to town in a couple of years.

 

[Zork]

My sister and her husband actually had a pig on their ranch in CA. They said that pigs are VERY smart and they had house trained it. I think it was one of the smaller breeds and not a full sized one.

Here is a Google search, with video on How and when do I castrate a pig?

http://www.google.com/search?q=How+...-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

Sorry Little fella.

 

[jcims]

I grabed my fishing net and caught it fairly easily. Then it got tangled up, so my Dad cut away some of the netting.

I don't know why, but when I saw that second pic, with you mugging for the camera and your Dad carefully cutting the little porker loose, all i could hear in my head was him saying 'now son, pay attention'.

Cute pig.

 

[blueriver]

Eddie, we get a bottle baby every once and awhile ... he will scour on the whole milk from the store. Get fresh goats milk or Cows milk ... daily give him a tablespoon of canned pumpkin (not pie filler) real pumpkin ... this will help keep him regular. Also get a box of Baby Food RICE and mix it with the milk, you will not need a bottle put the rice and milk in a dog bowl stick his nose it it he will drink. Good luck

 

[milkman]

When I was in grade school, we had a sow that had a litter of pigs and every morning when dad went to the barn, there'd be one less pig. He finally figured that she was eating them so he saved the last one and we raised it, kept it in a box behind the wood stove till it got big enough to stay outside. It sure was a fun pet, more like a dog than a pig, we never pinned it up, it just hung around the house and slept on the porch. It would follow me to the bus stop every morning and as soon as the bus got in sight of the house, that pig would come running to meet me when I got off the bus. By the time it got to be about 200#, I had an attack of appendicitis and had to have surgery. Back then, we didn't have insurance so the little piggy went to market to pay the bill. I sure missed him when I got home.