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X15 is now in a pen with his siblings. Piglets are brought here when they are three or four weeks old. They are taken away from their mother and live in a group with no contact to older pigs. They mostly live on slatted floors.

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A Comic of Nina Georgiev

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My neckband is gone.

Gazing through iron bars.

X15 is a daredevil

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More pictures you can find in the associated album on Flickr.

There are not a lot of exciting things to do or to see here. That´s why the piglet named X15 just lays down lethargical.

X15 has, as all the other pigs as well do, a very sensitive nose and, of course, wouldnt linger closely to his own excrement or urine.

If there´s not mother to cuddle up to, one just snuggles with his brothers ans sisters.

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You’ll be able to watch the next film of X15 next Tuesday

X15 continues to live in a closed room on a slatted floor

The piglets jump at the slightest noise or movement

Piglet X11 checks out his new home filled with loads of straw

Piglet X11 checks out his new home filled with loads of straw

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Piglets spend the first few weeks of their lives with their mother, but she is kept in a so called farrowing crate. This is a kind of cage which is just big enough for her to take a few paces backwards and forwards and turning around is practically impossible. She is unable to mother her young.

What’s this like for the piglets? How long do they stay with their mother and what happens then?

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