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While hunting 2 days ago the dogs caught about a 2 week old piglet and i need some opinions on how to raise him

Milk replacer? 3 to 4 times a day maybe?

x2 but give it all it can drink and at about 6-8 wks, slowly add protien cubes or powder till 12wks

  go get you some pig and sow feed  pellets and keep them in front of it . not really a need for milk replacer but i add it to the pellets to soften them up and the piglets drink it  .  pigs ain't like puppys they come out of the womb rooting and eating  . when i sell my baby potbellies to a lady she has me pull them from momma at 5 days old and she just starts handleing them and puts them on the baby pig feed pellets  .

I'm raising 2 right now and I just gave them milk replacer in a bottle and a bowl then started mixing it with all stock and now I'm just tapering off on the water until it's dry.

How do you get it to take a bottle

x s 2 , giving a pig a bottle is about like trying to teach one to sing   -   it's a waste of time , and it annoys the pig  ;D ;D

seriousley i would mix milk replacer and dog feed horse feed or anything for a couple weeks and then it will eat most anything .

Ya it's a pain in the butt but I just held them and forced it in there mouth they didn't like it too much at first but they got the hang of it. I tried feeding it from a bowl but they just thought it was the restroom they got skinny so I had to do something and once I saw the mushed up food was being eaten I stopped using a bottle.

If you can find cans of sweet potatoes, they like it ad it is good for them and there digestion. And cook some cornbread and crumble it up in warm milk. He should take to all of that pretty quick.

We had a lil boar pig one tim to and about the same age and had to bottle feed pips at the same time and he would always steal the pups bottle away because he thought it was the one he ate out of then he moved on to regular eatting then he died out of the blue but ot wasnt hard getting my last young young pigs to take a bottle

I have a two month old sow piglet that I caught a couple weeks ago and I had the same question. The first thing they recommend at tractor supply since she was young was a milk replacement "nurseall" I think it's called. They naturally weene themselves I've heard and had the same happen to me. Your supposed to give them the bottle 2-4 times a day and let them feed till they quit. After they reject the bottle or you weene them off at 5-8 weeks, slowly introduce a mash of water, milk ( whole milk if their under wait like mine was) and mini pig mazuri piglet feed but I would think any pig feed would work. Then slowly work to solids. But then I had the trouble of getting her to drink water and she got dehydrated and hot. I did a little research and saw that if you put the water in whatever there used to eating out of and not feed them as much so there hungry there going to drink from it no matter what because of hunger. Worked for me great and putting water on her didn't do anything but make it squel and run. Now she's getting fat and fat and running around with my pups.
Hope this helps

I feed mine mash potatoes , pecans shelled corn out of the can an anything eles soft he was about 2 weeks old when I got him he started eattin that now he eats anything I put out for him , he's about 2.5 months old now

man i wish i could post a pic of ole lucy.. my brother shot a 400+ sow in a pasture. as we was walking up on the sow (which the grass was knee tall) and boom u see bout 8 piglets runnin off . my lil cousin that was with us dove on one of the babies and we kept it .. all we did was take warm milk and put it on dog food . Lucy is pushin 180 right now and barely at 14 months old . she has ate dog food her whole life .. lol u can call her by her name , whistle or even shake the food bucket and if shes in hearing range u bet ur butt shes haulin ass back to ya haha needless to say Victor red bag been doin her jus as good as my dogs  ;D

Are they supposed to drink water at his age or do i just give him a bowl of milk?

oatmeal or sweet corn , im feeding 2 right now