Blood on Rod

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:40 am

Ran into something this morning on a sow. When i went to breed her I had a hard time getting the rod to lock in. I felt like i was hitting something solid. Finally it went in and locked into place. When I pulled the rod out there was a little blood on it. Had this happen on a gilt a couple times but never a sow. I'm curious if it will be that way in the morning when I breed her the 2nd time. What is my chances of her settleing?

JIM · Post by **JIM** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:32 pm

Happened to me on a gilt once too. Never did get her settled. Hope you have better luck.

ter · Post by **ter** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:24 pm

this happened to me the first time i used a foam rod. I pulled it out, unknowingly, while she was having a contraction and had some blood on it. She ended up settling.

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:25 pm

On the second time the rod locked in without any problem and ne blood when i pulled the rod out. So I'm hopeful

Hog_Whisperer · Post by **Hog_Whisperer** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:15 pm

We've had this happen a few times over the years and the sows have settled. We had a york boar who scraped the end of his unit on concrete (he was a bit of an exhibitionist) and caused it to bleed. He ended up settling 3 or 4 sows before it healed enough to stop bleeding. You should be fine.
Blood isn't a big factor in semen mortality. It does cause a little but it is nominal enough to not be real concerned about it.

kp · Post by kp » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:20 am

I just had this happen to a chester sow. Hopefully you will have better luck than me. She ended up with too much scare tissue on her cervix after the vet checked her. So she was unable to be bred and I had to ship her. However, sometimes as sows age and have had several litters thier cervix changes positions so you might have just cut her a little.

Blood on Rod

Blood on Rod

blood on rod