posted 14 years ago
Hello AnnaStarsia and welcome. No I'm afraid that I didn't find an organic solution and in fact it you could also see parasites on her skin so we called in the vet and he gave her a non-organic shot to cure it. Happily it has, and all the yucky dead skin has now flaked off and she looks like a nice happy pig again (she wasn't happy - she was scratching against things almost constantly, poor wee thing).
But I'd like to know how folk with organic pig farms deal with these sorts of things.
Whilst we're on pigs, our two 16 week old sows (Large Black x British Lop) don't do much digging up of their pasture - an area fenced off of about 20m x 40m) - and now seem to be lying around a lot. Is that normal behaviour for pigs?