a bit of bad news: a dead pot-belly

well, so there is death in farming… alas, another of our potbellies bit the dust and is now an ex-pig… The vet was called cca 2 weeks ago, as the tails were not curling and the pot-bellies were heard coughing, which Alan new meant worms. The mangalica had no such problem, always sporting immaculately curling tail, and is now a really serious sized entity. Anyway, the tail-wearing and the cough did not improve in the case of the smaller male, and turned into really difficult breathing yesterday. I couldn’t reach the said vet, the phone was off the hook said the telephone people. The other vet couldn’t come. I left a massage, that they should look – now after the fatality to make sure the others are ok. Though besides the not-normal tail hanging they do look and behave normal. But then, so did today’s unlucky now deeply buried piggie, that looked rather cute and fat even when dead. I’ll let you know if we ever see the vet, and what he says. We vaguely considered asking Jozsi to chop it (that was before it was dead) but then remembered, that the vet said, that for 6 weeks after the injections they cannot be eaten. But my theory is, that not all the medicine got into the pig, as the injection method was a bit haphazard to say the least.
Also, we had to get our grain from the local farmers’ co-op, for quite a lot of money, had to shovel it into sacks ourselves. Few people seem to be selling grain now. Let’s hope our corn and sunflower production will be upto the task. Silver lining: one less pig to feed… Hm – I considered to make a picture of the dead pig, but I thought, maybe it would be considered of poor taste and not of faithful documentation…
ps 2 days later the vet turned up - he reckond it was a case of bad genes and lung-infection, against which he proceeded to inject the survivers. And to take money of us. Well, let's hope this time better results...