"PANSY" GIVES BIRTH TO TWENTY-THREE PIGLETS... NINETY-NINE OFFSPRING IN FOUR YEARS...
19-4-1949
PANSY, 28 stone Essex Sow on the farm of MR. JOHN BUTLER, of Stoke-by-Nayland, near Ipswich, on Saturday gave birth of a record British litter of 23 piglets.. In under four years Pansy has mothered 99 offspring in seven litters - two of them of 19 each. Normal litter is about 12 - of which only eight or nine can be successfully reared by the mother. Pansy - her full name is Chilton Pansy 32nd is bringing up 14 of her latest family.
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ANIMALS - PIGS
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