04/15/2024
Amy Swinehouse is almost touching the ground with that belly now! I’ve got an outdoor pen built and the kitchen set up for farrowing… plenty of towels, heat lamp, gloves and l**e in case of stuck piglet, little snips for clipping the tips of their milk teeth, chlorhexidine spray for their umbilical cords, iron dextran to inject the piglets at 3 days old, extra straw, hay, piglet feed… already had other supplies on hand but got them organized and ready…oxytocin, calsorb, pain reliever if needed for mama, disposable scalpels for castrating the boys when it’s time (and a little lidocaine although it isn’t normally used but I will because I just can’t imagine doing it without!), dewormers, thermometer, electrolytes, honey… only thing left is to order vaccines but waiting until they arrive so I have a head count! Soooo… I may be a lil bit over prepared lol I even have blankets and pillows ready to sleep on the kitchen floor with her if she wants or needs me!!! I gave her her ivermectin dewormer last week and started a 3 day fenbendazoke course yesterday as well as ponazuril to clear any remaining parasites from her since piglets usually aren’t dewormed until 6 wks old so want mama cas clear as possible, even doing the dogs and Swinona and keeping the yard impeccably clean for the next few days… I may be nesting more than Amy haha. I am never this way with my puppies!!!
And poor Swinona sprained her right front leg yesterday so I’ve got her on an anti-inflammatory and doped her with Tramadol last night night (have to admit she was adorable when it hit her and she would lift her head just enough to eat some ice cubes last night but ooooh my did she sleep good lol) she is not limping today and the swelling has gone down so I’m going to give her one more dose of Meloxicam this morning and hopefully she will be good from there. 
I raised two boys that if they had cut their leg off I’d tell them to rub some dirt on it and that’s what they got for doing something stupid… tough love style lol… but I am over the top rediculous with these 🐷 🐷’s but in all fairness… they are much better behaved than my boys were too!!! Jonathon Kachenmeister Daniel Kachenmeister