This Mama Pig Was On The Brink Of Death

This Mama Pig Was On The Brink Of Death – Until Her Own Piglets Saved Her

When Emma the pig arrived at Apricot Lane Farms in California, she was already in rough shape.

The sow was sick and underweight — and very pregnant. Farm owner John Chester was told that Emma would be lucky if she had six piglets, but that prediction didn’t turn out to be completely accurate. The night Emma went into labor, she gave birth to not six, not seven, not eight piglets, but 17. Out of the 17 born, 13 piglets survived. Chester was stunned. His wife, Molly, was elated. Emma, however, was exhausted.

Emma’s long and intense labor didn’t help her already fragile condition. Her udders hardened, her fever spiked to 108.3 and she stopped producing milk. With no other choice, Chester had to remove

Emma’s piglets to give her a chance to recover.

“Bottle feeding 13 piglets three-to-four times a day was not an easy option,” Chester says. “If Emma died, that was going to be our future.”

Chesterand his team pulled out every vet trick in the book to try and save Emma. They managed to get her fever down, but she still wouldn’t eat. Without food, Emma would surely slip away. Then, Chester got an idea.

“What Emma might need was a reason to live,” he thought. “…Even if it might kill her.”

So, Chester brought back the piglets. That’s when a miracle happened.

“If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it,” Chester says.

Moments after reuniting with her piglets, Emma’s condition seemed to improve. Slowly, she stood and walked over to a trough to eat.

“Whatever the reason, Emma the pig was alive,” Chester says.

She certainly didn’t waste any time caring for her babies. For two months, Emma nurtured and fed her brood, until they were grown enough and ready to happily embark on their own pastures. Then, Emma did was most empty-nesters do: She got a pet. In this case, it was “a beat-up little rooster,” as Chester calls him.

With her new unlikely friend, refreshed spirit and much-needed 200-pound weight gain, Emma has now become quite the healthy, happy pig.

“I like to think Emma was saved by us, but it’s so obvious that she was saved by her calling,” Chester says. “In her case, it was to be a mom… Some might say that the very thing that could threaten to take us down in life can, at times, be the one thing that keeps us alive.”

Sikerült megérteni a történetet? Tudnál válaszolni a kérdésekre?

1. Milyen állapotban érkezett Emma a farmra?

2. Mivel okozott meglepetést gazdáinak?

3. Milyen állapotba került a szülés után?

4. Hogyan sikerült segíteni rajta és miért volt ez kockázatos?

5. Hogyan, milyen állapotban van most?

6. Hogyan magyarázza a gazdája a történteket?

Válaszok:

1. Rossz állapotban, alultápláltan és terhesen.

2. Nem hat kismalacot szült, amire számítani lehetett, hanem tizenhetet.

3. Megkeményedtek az emlői, belázasodott és elapadt a teje. Később lement a láza, de nem evett.

4. Visszaadták neki a kismalacokat, amiket elvettek tőle, de bele is pusztulhatott volna ebbe.

5. Egészséges, boldog, hízott kétszáz fontot (kilencven kilót) és van egy barátja is, egy kakas.

6. Szüksége volt egy életcélra, (arra, hogy legyen értelme az életének), az anyai feladata, elhívása mentette meg. Előfordul, hogy éppen az segít életben maradni, ami az életünket fenyegeti.