Our sow had a three headed piglet! Alive!
Wow! This morning I went out to check on 840123999102666 and she had the strangest looking piglet. At first I thought it had two heads and then I realize there were three! The middle head had no eyes, just an independent mouth and nose. Ears only on the outer sides of the left and right heads.
Other than that there were no deformities. The body looks perfectly normal and the piglet is nursing with all three mouths. Fortunately this sow is one of our super-16’s with a full hexidecimal of teats. Otherwise there just won’t be enough for everyone.
I would post photos but my camera broke this morning. Dang – just when I needed it most! We’re going in town to do deliveries tomorrow and I’ll pickup a new camera then so I can get photos.
This is just so amazing!
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Walter Jeffries Tinker, Tailor… A bit eclectic & a tad eccentric, polymath, quantum mechanic & Farmer. Also lucky at cards.
April fools!
I cannot believe how I fell for that!
Well I’m glad Valereee is on the ball here. Me? Hook, line, and sinker. Reel me in.
Oh you foolish guy! You had me rite up past the end!!!!!
My first post ever to all of the blogs I read: Well done. I’m shaking my head. :)
Oh that was good. I was thinking to myself WHAT???? After reading the stuff on NONAIS, I couldn’t believe that you would register any animal—silly me didn’t even think of April fools, LOL! BTW, I’ve been reading your blog for quite a while now, it’s become a favorite with the whole family and the info you give is fantastic! Thanks for all of it, even the silly stuff :-)
heheeh! Thanks for the fun April Fools! You got me!
Well, you got me, too! :-P
For crying out loud, I can’t believe I fell for that. Good one!
good one !
Excellent – my favorite April Fools blog.
Its April 4th now and it still fooled me!
Hey! You had me right up to the end! Most excellent trick!
So cute! Can we come vist to see Fluffy?
Heres an interesting related two faced story!
two faces in india
i have been gone a while but you GOT ME! i was telling my husband all about it and then hovered over amazing!
Oh my god! You got me! I was believing you! That is so good!
I clicked on the Three Headed Piglet photo after reading the O’possm story. I had read this blog post a year or so ago…I wanted to share my odd piglet story for this year 2015.
I had a sow give birth to a piglet with no head. Ears & brain bump but no eyes, nose, mouth or head structure. I thought in the dim lighting of the farrowing area that the sow maybe had eaten the head off but when I took the piglet into better light I could see that the head was simply not there. Of course the piglet was not alive after birth but other than being translucent white in color she was fully grown. The other problem was the genitalia was not fully developed.
I put the piglet in a Ziplock and she now resides in my freezer for something to show the vet next time he comes to the farm for a visit.
Save that piglet. I’ve never actually had weird congenital defects like that, the three headed pig was just a joke, but once a veterinarian contacted me who collects these sorts of things.
Do you seriously want the piglet? Ask your vet friend if he wants it. Then find out how to preserve the piglet so it can be sent to either him or you…then I would need an address where i can send it to…
I was just talking to my vet about the piglet today and there was a calf recently born with 8 legs & two heads in Northern Idaho. Of course this was a c-section delivery.
And a breeder just 30 miles from me had a two headed piglet born last year. It lived for a while before dying.
And a few years back I did have a litter of piglets born that had cleft palates. 6 of the 12 born to that litter had this problem. I canned the sow shortly after she weaned that litter because in her first litter one of the piglets had a scrotal hernia problem. I did have a number of problems that year with non breeders, lameness issues in the free ranging pigs, accelerated growth, over weight issues…etc I decided that the soaked wheat middlings that I supplemented the pasture with might be to blame. Sure enough within the next breeding cycle the pregnancies started happening, lameness issues disappeared, and the bloated fat look disappeared as well.
Dawn, I’ve emailed you the name and email contact for the person who is collecting deformed piglets. He may also have some interesting thoughts on the topic.