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Pregnancy Cranberry juice and pregnancy care?

GPonnett

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I have been weighing the two foster sows that we picked up from the Craigslist add, who were living with a male in a small pet store cage. In 2 weeks, they each gained about 6 oz (possibly due to improved diet or care?), and they are becoming more pear shaped. I am not sure if they are pregnant or not. When researching care for a pregnant pig, I read about giving cranberry juice to pregnant sows to prevent toxemia and UTI's??

I should note that I have been following diet recommendations from this forum and guinea lynx charts, with a variety of veggies, Oxbow pellets, and local timothy hay. Should I do anything different?
 

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Cranberry juice does not prevent toxemia or uti.

Being pregnant does not make them more suspectible to uti.
 

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Thank you for your response. This did not seem necessary, but I wanted to be sure I am not missing anything.
 
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