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RE: Force Feeding Young Hoggy

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Posted by: tedmolekings at Fri Mar 6 08:32:37 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tedmolekings ]  
   

Is the pic you have posted recent? If so it appears to me that he still has sufficent weight on him. I agree that if he was a mouse eater then that is what you should be trying to feed him. I have produced around 100 hogs and the few that I have had to force feed I take a q-tip and cut the end off. Then I take it to the side of the mouth until it opens its mouth then I take the pinky head first and start to push it in with my fingers then take the q-tip and gently work the pinky down. If it were mine I would Let him go for a while before trying to feed him. Force feeding can be very stressfull and although I have never lost a hog by doing this I have lost a couple of corns doing this. It might be hard to do but leave him alone for awhile so as not to stress him. Just check to make sure he has water.
Hope everything works out for you, Mike


   

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