Which BYC member scares you?

[MACCanadianCoop]

@azurbanclucker resume received today for IT position. Description reads "I'm a geek that knows how to talk to people!"

Gotta love the honesty!

 

[Isadora]

Oh no! I had no idea. Is this a thing with pigs? Can it be treated?

It can be treated from what I understand but best done when the piglet is quite young. Obviously requires surgery to put everything back where it's supposed to be.
Our pigs are just for eating, so we wouldn't do any surgery. It's not as if she's a pet or something. I'm guessing we'll have to make plans to process her quickly.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

How does that even happen? What do you do about it?

I would presume the same way it happens in humans.

 

[Isadora]

How does that even happen? What do you do about it?

Surgery would be the fix for it. Have to put the intestine back inside and sew up the torn muscle.
This one is right at the umbilical site, so I'm guessing that didn't heal correctly and it's not from a torn muscle. But I'm no expert.

 

[azurbanclucker]

@azurbanclucker resume received today for IT position. Description reads "I'm a geek that knows hoe to talk to people!"

Gotta love the honesty!

But not the crap spelling.

 

[bill3607]

I would presume the same way it happens in humans.

Yes, lifting too much in the gym no doubt

 

[azurbanclucker]

It can be treated from what I understand but best done when the piglet is quite young. Obviously requires surgery to put everything back where it's supposed to be.
Our pigs are just for eating, so we wouldn't do any surgery. It's not as if she's a pet or something. I'm guessing we'll have to make plans to process her quickly.

If it's an umbilical hernia you still probably need to get it checked. if it ruptures you're not eating that pig, it'll be full of contaminated gut funk.

 

[Isadora]

If it's an umbilical hernia you still probably need to get it checked. if it ruptures you're not eating that pig, it'll be full of contaminated gut funk.

That's why I'm thinking we should just process her quickly. Obviously we don't want anything to rupture.

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Would anyone here be kind enough to humor me and take a look at my big-legged lil chicken's sweet red face? I'm over here swapping out the bands, and so far hers was the only band that was noticably tight already, too...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/australorp-roo.1528986/. (page 4)

 

[azurbanclucker]

That's why I'm thinking we should just process her quickly. Obviously we don't want anything to rupture.