A three-year-old sow at the Massey Agricultural College piggery has produced a litter of 20 pigs, which is a record in numbers for this department. The first 14 were born alive. The mother is the daughter of a sow which, three years ago, produced a litter of 19, 17 of which were alive after eight weeks, five of them having been “ boarded out ” with fostermothers. At the present stage of knowledge, it is assumed that the maximum number of . piglets which could bo produced in one litter is 28, but any number in the 20’s is exceedingly rare.
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Evening Star, Issue 25618, 19 October 1945, Page 3
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