When Emma the pig arrived at Apricot Lane Farms in California, she was already in rough shape.
The sow was sick and underweight — and very pregnant. Farm owner John Chester was told that Emma would be lucky if she had six piglets, but that prediction didn’t turn out to be completely accurate. The night Emma went into labor, she gave birth to not six, not seven, not eight piglets, but 17. Out of the 17 born, 13 piglets survived. Chester was stunned. His wife, Molly, was elated. Emma, however, was exhausted.
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“I like to think Emma was saved by us, but it’s so obvious that she was saved by her calling,” Chester says. “In her case, it was to be a mom… Some might say that the very thing that could threaten to take us down in life can, at times, be the one thing that keeps us alive.”
The above video is a Super Soul Short produced by John Chester (Chester Films). “Super Soul Sunday” airs Sundays on OWN at 11 a.m. ET, when it also streams live on Oprah.com, Facebook.com/owntv and Facebook.com/supersoulsunday.
