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A beast of mother pig has popped out not one, not two, but 41 piglets in a single farrow.
Dubbed “super sow” the impressive swine’s miraculous mothering was witnessed by farmer Ernani Funiniwho who was left open-mouthed by the machine-gun-like births.
The huge ham haul was welcomed to his farm in Faxinal dos Guedes, in southern Brazil on 27th March.
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The mammoth birth lasted much of the day, kicking off at around 9:50am and powering on into the afternoon until around 2:30pm.
Litters this size are very rare with the maximum number of pigs coming from a single mother sitting more around the 24 mark, Ernani said.
With that being said, he was ecstatic because generally speaking, he was seeing bigger numbers filling up his pig pen across multiple births.
Ernani added: “Due to the large number of piglets, we had to place some of them to suckle with other sows.”
Genetic improvements, nutrition, living conditions and the sow's strength were all features in the remarkable birth, according to Rodrigo Lanzarini, a vet at the Department of Agriculture.
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He reckoned that the average number of pigs to be born in a single farrow was between 12 and 14, putting into context the sheer scale of the super sow’s super efforts.
The vet added: "It is a great result for Granja Dal Bo [the farm] and also for us, as a municipality, it is a source of pride that it happened right here in our community.
"We are very happy."
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