Some lessons we have to learn and relearn, over and over again, and one of them is when we’re buying livestock. Certain animals simply do not thrive. Sometimes the underlying cause is some elemental weakness so elusive that it can escape even the most observant eye. Other times it stems from a defect not obvious until months later—like an abdominal hernia on a weanling piglet that first appears as an insignificant bump but that with the pig’s rapid growth becomes a large protrusion of necrotic bowel that results in an untimely death.
Failure to Thrive
Failure to Thrive
Failure to Thrive
Some lessons we have to learn and relearn, over and over again, and one of them is when we’re buying livestock. Certain animals simply do not thrive. Sometimes the underlying cause is some elemental weakness so elusive that it can escape even the most observant eye. Other times it stems from a defect not obvious until months later—like an abdominal hernia on a weanling piglet that first appears as an insignificant bump but that with the pig’s rapid growth becomes a large protrusion of necrotic bowel that results in an untimely death.