Piglet X11 moves to the sanctuary
Piglet X11 is moving out of the intensive pig farm today, and into an animal’s paradise! From now on he’ll be free to live as a pig was intended to live. He will be able to make his own decisions and won’t be “used” for any human purposes. The film shows the journey and the [...]
X11 and X15 have to learn how to live without their mother
The castration without local anesthetics – for animal rights activists purposes
The piglets aged only a few days when they are caught by the pig-breeders. They try to run away but the experienced human hands get them quickly. That they fearfully cry for help doesn’t let them off the hook in the industrial husbandry. One person holds the piglet so that it isn’t able to defend [...]
The castration without local anesthetics – for livestock industry purposes
X15 and his siblings aged 4 days on Tuesday. The farmer and his wife are preparing for the so called “piglet-service”. The “piglet service” usually includes the castration of male piglets, injection with an iron-supplement, teeth clipping as well as tail docking.The farmer is allowed to carry out these surgeries himself if the piglets aged [...]
X15 is castrated without anaesthetic – a “normal” procedure in pig farming
On the morning of 30 June 2009 the piglet X15, whose life we will be accompanying, was castrated without any anaesthetic. Unfortunately this is usual practice. 250.000 piglets are castrated in the EU every day. In almost every case, no anaesthetic is used! The castration causes not only acute, but also chronic pain. This is [...]
X11 and X15′s first few days
The birth – for livestock purposes
On the documented farm, the mother of X15, as well as her fellow sows have been kept in groups for 4 weeks after having been made pregnant. This form of animal husbandry ended one week before the due date. Farms with less than 10 sows are allowed to keep the expectant mothers separated from each [...]
More piglet pictures
The pictures of the young piglets, haven’t even been online for 2 days yet, and already they’ve had more than 200 visitors! on Flickr….So, here’s another 10 pictures. You will find more pictures of the new-born piglets on Flickr.
The life of X11 and X15 begins
On 26th of June, early in the morning, nine piglets were born . Yesterday the first pictures were shown, now we display an extract of the videos. We will accompany two of them intensively. We call them X11 and X15 – both siblings, just been born. X15 will spend his life in a common Austrian [...]
The piglets were born!
The piglets were born this morning. Here are the first photos of the nine siblings: You can see more photos of the new arrivals in our Flickr site album “The first weeks”.
