No vacation week at ag-ed: students care for piglets

FALLS VILLAGE — The latest additions to the agricultural education department’s animal roster at Housatonic Valley Regional High School arrived Tuesday evening, April 19, as the lady pig who rejoices in the name Vivian Leigh gave birth to her first litter, a total of 13 piglets. Ten survived past the first night; nine made it through the first few days.Six days after the birth, there were eight piglets enthusiastically feeding in a stall in the barn at Housatonic Valley Regional High. The runt of the litter was taken home by Arielle Betti of Cornwall and is doing well. Vivian Leigh looked a little tired to an untutored eye. One of the piglets investigated the mother’s back. “Wrong side,” said agricultural education department Co-chairman Karen Davenport.Last week was a vacation week. Davenport said students took turns dropping by and keeping tabs on the pregnant Vivian Leigh, and that Alexa Curtiss of Salisbury (and her mom, Cynthia) stayed all Tuesday night. Laura White from Lakeville was also on hand, as were members of the Bartomioli family of Falls Village and several others.“She is very maternal and protective of her babies,” observed Karen Bartomioli, a Lakeville Journal reporter. “When they wander from the sheltered part of the stall she herds them back with her snout.”The father of the piglets is a boar, rather prosaically named John, who lives at the Connecticut Junior Republic (CJR) facility in Litchfield. Davenport said Housatonic shares the boar as part of a cooperative arrangement with CJR, and Wamogo and Nonnewaug high schools.

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