Sometimes you have to put your whole arm up into a live pig

[urbpan]

Oh, hey, you clicked the link! You're pretty brave. All right, then, here's the video:

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[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's one easy-going pig!

Did I understand the woman was checking to see if there were any dead fetuses in the pig's womb? Did the pig just give birth?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

She was feeling to see if there were any more piglets inside--as it turned out, there was one more, but it ended up dying.

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

Okay, figured it was something like that. Sorry for the one that didn't make it. :(

Is it common practice to do this to all large animals after they give birth (especially those with litters/multiples)?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Is it common practice to do this to all large animals after they give birth (especially those with litters/multiples)?

I honestly don't know. I suspect it is. They keep a box of shoulder-length exam gloves and a bottle of lube around all the time though, so it certainly isn't anything unusual!

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about my grandfather, and how he was a rancher. I guess he must've done this. :( Yikes! Oh well, I understand why it's done.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'll bet he didn't have nice disposable arm gloves, either.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

Very James Herriot.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat
All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It's important to remember!

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I missed that one! It's awesome! Incidentally, I'd be swiping that icon like an unattended brownie if it belonged to someone other than you.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Well, I swiped it from Engrish.com, so I don't have much of a claim on it.

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

In Soviet Russia, live pig....


No, I can't do it.

[octogirlie.livejournal.com]

karasuhaiku is right- that is one relaxed pig! I was expecting lots of ear-splitting squealing and some kind of restraint on the pig.

How may piglets did she have?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

She had five, and four survived. It was her first litter.

[ssejooz.livejournal.com]

I can not believe that pig just laid there! Piglets or no- our pigs go crazy!

lucky vet.

:)

well, at least it was what I expected

[wynnsfolly.livejournal.com]

and it does bring back not-so-fond memories of the days when we were raising pigs. we've had litters of up to a dozen, and at the very least , the sow had to be monitored while farrowing to make sure the they didn't get tangled up.

ah, the joys of animal husbandry - you will wind up putting your hands almost anywhere.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

My grandfather is/was a vet out in West Texas. In the 1970's, he was the only one in maybe a 50, 60 mile radius, so he took care of every kind of creature imaginable - including pigs.

Every spring, when the pigs would farrow, he'd take my uncle (age roughly 10) with him out to the pigpens. Since Charlie had long, skinny arms, it was easier for him to check the sows for hung piglets than it was for my grandfather. Uncle Charles would get paid a quarter for every piglet he pulled.

At one point, he got hold of a runt, who in Charlotte's Web fashion was given up for dead, and then raised by Charlie to be a 4-H project pig. Little Red later became a quasi-celebrity of the area because she'd escape her pen, walk a couple of miles down the highway to the Texaco station, plop her 300lb porcine ass on the concrete and refuse to move until someone bought her a coke and removed the cap. She'd then drink the soda out of the bottle.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

now that is one fine pig!

[apathy.livejournal.com]

are you a vegetarian or vegan?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Lately I've been saying that I eat meat very selectively. I've been a lacto-ovo veg for about 15 years, but over the winter I ate sausage from the farm (the predecessors to these pigs). I'll eat meat from the farm I work at, since I know these animals, and know how they are cared for.

[apathy.livejournal.com]

interesting, i was just curious ;B

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

That was just her forearm!

Tease.

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Just because I can't leave it unsaid:

If *I* had just pushed out 4 babies, the doctor could do whatever s/he deemed necessary and I WOULDN'T CARE.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Ooooh looks like fun times! :) heheheheheheh