I am so excited as I went up to our local Farm shop (Foxbury Farm which has won the top Farm shop in the UK this year :) ) to get some lovely fillet steak :D

Anyway got talking to the owner and was asking about the Pigs they have. I mentioned I have a very great interests in Pigs which I have had since I was a little girl. This was after I witnessed first hand a full pig been butchered outside the kitchen at my God mothers farm :)

Anyway I mentioned how I would love to see a sow giving birth. So she has said that I can go up in the next few weeks as they have quite a few up at the pig village ready to whelp ( not sure of the piggy term ! :) ) and go and spend a day with them and hopefully witness a birth first hand :D :D So chuffed as it is one thing that I have always wanted to do :D

So I will have seen a human birth, a bitch and a cat and hopefully soon a pig :D

Lucy
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Farrow is the piggy term. :D

I have watched Rabbits, Kittens and Puppies being born, and Homo Sapiens :D

Thanks for the Farrow ! I did know but couldn't remember :rolleyes:

She has said that it is normally quite quick, the sow lays down and then podding a pea type senario ! :D

Humans, donkey, pups, kittens, deer, goat, lamb, pigs, calf, and seen a chicken lay an egg and watched eggs hatch if that counts!!
Amos

I have seen horses, cows, sheep, pigs, goats, cats, rabbits, dogs, guinea pigs, chickens laying eggs oh and I was involved in two human births :D

Alli

LOL @ Amos and Alli at the chicken laying an egg :D

I think we can count that one ! ;)

Lucy
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Humans, Horses, Cattle, Pigs,Goats, sheep, Cats, Dogs,Rabbits, Chickens laying eggs, Fish giving birth (guppies)and when I was younger mice (yuuck, couldn't do that now).:-O

Why about the mice ? They are lovely little hairy rodents :)

Lucy
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Loved them when I was a kid, but OMG now they frighten me stupid!!!

You know the pictures of the housewife standing on a chair, well thats me!! :-(

In order:

1.  Dogs
2.   Cats
3.   Sheep
4.   Goats (done the James Herriott bit, hands in, pushing hooves back, turning head round )

I've also watched chickens laying eggs & hatching....been involved in 4 homo sapiens births (from the business end) but never actually watched one..... daughter will insist on having babies in the Far East ...with a 7 hr difference (in their favour) and her choosing to give birth within 5 hours means that I could hardly get to Heathrow in time!!!!

So, if anyone (Essex area) needs a birth partner......  I'd love to be there :D :D - and I'd promise NOT to bring me gloves.....

Margot

Margot

Dogs, cats, fish used to have guppies as well, missed the goats cos they went early! and seen eggs being laid not hatched so that counts as half ????
Thats all *live* ones but seen loads more on the tele :D

Christine, Spain.

Done the James Heriot thing with the Sheep I have small hands so son yells for mother when there is a problem.  But much prefer sheep (quite nice sorting out which leg belongs to which lamb!!) to cattle, the times I have been on the end of calving ropes OMG now thats what I call hard work.

Give me dogs any day of the week.

Hiya
I completely agree about the calving and lambing. It is very hard work and not great if you are blessed with small hands. My ex hubby usually did the honours but occasionally the small hands were needed. If your beasts are anything like the dairy cows my ex had, they would choose to calve at some ungodly hour of the morning in the most extreme corner of the field if they were outside or pushed right up against a corner somewhere if they were inside. I actually became quite a good guessing at the sex of the calf by feeling the shape of faces and feet.

Alli

Edited for my terrible spelling

Cats, dogs, goats, sheep, chickens and ducks (laying and hatching), plus spent the last 23 years or so helping calves make their entrance into the world. :)

Just dogs

Used to work at Bristol Zoo - Seen a few weird and wonderfuls there!!!!  Primates, exotic birds hatching, reptiles inc. crocs, 'tarantula's', insects, naked mole rats :D :D. etc etc etc

When I was at school and on the German Exchange, they took us to a farm (as you do) and we were in the cow sheds-there was this cow..  I didn't know the German for "Excuse me Sir, the insides of your cow are coming out": I was horrified, I'd never seen anything like that in my life!  He then took great delight in explaining to us the finer points of a bovine delivery.. :rolleyes:  I must also point out that this informative field trip was followed by one to a mushroom museum, a recycling plant, a pre-fab house factory and a convent... It's really hard to pick out the highlight I must say... :)

Lol @ Spaniel Lover, sounds like the French Exchange trip I went on - it was the Congac (sp?) vinery which was the highlight of mine :)

Ive seen rats, chinese hamsters, russian hamsters and gerbils give birth (well I kept them in my bedroom when I was younger so I got to watch :p.  I also worked on the college farm and helped out at one of the farms owned by waitrose so I have done the James Herriott thing @ lambing time (naturally I practiced first with dead lambs in a special box which acts as a simulator ) and also watched pigs and cows.

Ive seen dogs, cats, pigs, cow, rats, hamsters, mice, an egg hatch and my guppies.

Have watched many on TV lol Girraffe, horses, sheep, kangeroo, deer, gazelle, ect ect but that prob doesn't count.

Hi dollface,

I'm a TV expert labour nurse/midwife too on a variety of exotics ;) But have seen dogs, horses, cows, sheep and mice give birth in flesh - not much call for giraffes in these parts :D

Teri

Well, I have only seen one thing give birth,
A seal!!!!!!!!
We went to see the seals in their natural environment and saw one give birth in front of us :D :D :D :D
Lea :)

cats, dogs, pigs, cows, horses, sheep 

Kittens, lambs, calves, chicks, piglets, rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, snakes, lizards. Used to work on a farm that had rodants and exotics :D

dogs, cats, guinea pigs, goats, sheep, cattle

and countless amounts of extotics on the telly :D

dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, kittens  think that's it

Oh no, just remembered, hamsters and gerbils

dogs, cat, mice, daughter.

well apart from dogs, ive seen , deer, rhinos, tigers, cows, horses, sheep, and gazzeles. all on tv of course !!!!

Dogs, cats, sheep, chicks hatch ... that's it - I was at the wrong end for human (and unconscious)!