New farmer decides her boar no longer needs his family jewels and takes matters into her own hands. When things go wrong the vets take their gloves off to prescribe some well deserved salt.

[u/Lapidotty]

/r/AskVet/comments/555wth/i_need_advice_on_late_pig_castration_because_im/d87uqxq

[u/KingOfWewladia]

This popcorn is too sad to be enjoyable. :(

[u/AltonBrownsBalls]

So this person accidentally got a boar, then it sort of slipped their mind to get it castrated...for 4 months. Then after consulting several local farmers whose help she did not solicit to actually supervise or perform the procedure that they all told her was fine to do, looks up videos on YouTube and cuts into pig sack.

This is why hipsters need to stop playing farmer.

[u/bitterred]

I'm surprised I've never heard of this sub before with how amazingly helpful ya'll have been in answering my specific questions.

r/AskVet is very helpful, as long as you are behaving in a responsible way toward your animals.

[u/eezstreet]

TIL you can find pig castration tutorials on YouTube.

[u/[deleted]]

As a man...oh my fucking God.

I'm not against neutering pets and animals. But a novice castrating a pig after watching a couple YouTube videos???

That's just horrible. That poor boar

[u/AnguishLanguish]

Oh for Pete's sake. This whole thing is just terrible. Couldn't they wait and separate the boar until they could have it castrated? I just don't think 'we got busy' is an acceptable excuse. I do not doubt that they were told by others to castrate at home but surely not at that weight and with no prior experience. This screams animal cruelty to me... Even if they didn't 'mean to' they have been cruel. Hops off high horse I just can't enjoy this drama... -_-

[u/Cylinsier]

Man, what world do you live in where you think that is a procedure you can do based only on a youtube tutorial? Stupidity aside, I think she'd get a little more sympathy if she showed a little more for the pig she mutilated. She keeps dismissing claims of animal cruelty with weak explanations. "Local anesthesia is hard to find." That's not an excuse.

[u/annarchy8]

"So I decided to become a farmer. Got some pigs and forgot about getting the male castrated until it was too late so I just did it myself because vets are...lazy? Anyway, it's totally fine and pigs feel no pain but can you tell me how I fucked it up because there's obviously something wrong that has nothing to do with what I did. And why can't we eat the meat of Bob if he has a fever? What is infection?"

Just goddammit. Fine, feed the meat of a sick animal to your family. Enjoy your entire family getting sick, maybe dying, probably becoming zombies. Has this person never heard of mad cow disease?!

[u/[deleted]]

That's just sad.

[u/[deleted]]

OP mentions in an earlier post on another subreddit that the knife wasn't even sharp enough. It didn't cut right. This is fucking crazy.