Well, Pig Pig is officially off to stay with her boyfriend for a month as of today!!
She looked so big in the pen compared to the babies.....next to him she looks like the baby!
He is just checking her out and saying hi!
These are the two new piggies we brought home with us from where we dropped off pig pig. They are both little girls and we are thinking about breeding them. We are going to look at the six total we have now and decide who we want to breed to get the best offspring. The rest will be available to eat! If you look closely you will notice they have nose rings. This is not a fashion statement. This a ring that some farmers use to keep the pigs from rooting. We removed them as soon as we got home. Our pigs are grown naturally and they cannot forage for food if they cannot root around to do so.
The pigs did fight a little bit after being together for a while. The two new ones are a little bigger and were arguing about who should be the boss. After a day or so they will all work it out and quit fighting but today and tomorrow they will argue a lot. We also locked them in the barn for a couple days so the little ones don't try to go hunt for their mother. We will probably let them out Sunday under supervision to make sure they don't wander off. They do have food and drink at the barn so they should settle down quickly!
Just wanted to through in a picture of my daughter standing by the tractor. She helped me all day long today. We added a couple of heavy duty gates to the shed to help handle the cattle better. Put another bale of hay in to the cows. Moved pigs and fed the babies. She did a great job for only being 4!!
Kenny
No comments:
Post a Comment