REARING OF LITTLE PIGS.

New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 6

REARING OF LITTLE PIGS.

We hear sometimes of little pigs beiim adopteda nd brought, up by bitches and other, animals, but these are, rarely found leady to hand, and the only practical method is a cow and a bottle. If we start on this we must sit up, or get up at night to feed them, for they want nourishment every few hours,. and in small quantity, and the temperature of the milk must be carefully regulated Long fasts and big feeds are not suited to the delicate stomach of a young animal, who in a state of nature pays a visit to the teat at short .intervals, and tney inevitably cause indigestion and scour, and scour causes check to growth and generally death. Cows’ milk does 3 d ? S L Iy resemble in composition the milk of the sow, and seems not to

suit the stomach of little vi 2s v and thus they often scour': do not readily digest it, and wo have got them to take kiuVimi W Dottle they begin to drop off from indigestion. The usual -that the survivors, if am- is :pigs if They are able to foraee fswv^ : selves. .Several - people set- , ljght heart to less:pigs by hand, biit*- whb-have wished: they: hadn’t before through with the business." mon cause of milk fever is tht* t Co ®' of an excess of rich or healing S' about the time of farrowing in force milk—it usually defeats v as to strengthening tlie sow at this period, whilst it is almost22s* to set up more or less feverish sym^g i . . V •