Well, I mowed all the fourth cut down last Tuesday and Wednesday in the hopes of getting dry square bales to sell. Mother nature however decided that was not to be the case. After three days of cloudy cool weather I decided to just roll it up into round bales and make silage hay. Hopefully I can find some people in need of silage hay this winter. Otherwise I will have enough to feed the cows for half of next year as well as this year!
As I write this it is raining again. I get the feeling that this will continue through out the winter meaning constant battling of snow. All in all it has been a productive year for growing hay, just not making it!
Also, we put Pig and Pig Pig into their pens Saturday. They are very close to having babies and we are checking them often. They are as comfortable as one could expect one to be when carrying up to 14 babies! They seem like they are very very close. We unfortunately do not have an exact due date because we didn't know they got bred. However I know the week we weaned the piglets. Five days after you wean the piglets the sow will come into heat. Going by the latest date that they could have been bred under those conditions they would be due any minute now. Most likely they will give birth in the next 24-48 hours.
I am anxious to see what they look like this time as they are a cross between a hamp/duroc sow and a Tamworth boar. Tamworth are very hardy and able to grow very readily in a pasture based setting.
Kenny
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