Daisy pig has her first litter!

Well, it has been a very busy start to the year 2012.  I have been working more the last 6 weeks than I did the previous three months!  Between snow and a couple of big projects that we are working on I haven't had time to get much done around home including posting on here.

The good news is we have some new baby piggies to talk about.

Daisy pig had her first piglet at around 10pm on valentines day.  Two more quickly followed.   Daisy went out to see the new babies and quickly went into mommy mode and jumped right in the pen and started licking them off and rolling them around to get them warmed up.


A friend of Steven's was in the pen to see pigs born for the first time.  She was very excited and fit right in!



There is always a lot of interest when babies are born.  Having the barn set up the way it is is very nice for people to come see it happen. 


She had a total of 11.  Four of them were stillborn.  This is common for a first time mother and I know the next litter will be much better.






Some have cute little black noses.  There are two of them that are brown with golden hair and the others are mostly red.



I put up some boards to keep the bigger pigs out of the extra pen so only the little feeders could get in there to eat.  Lady A. decided she wanted in any way so she lays down on her side and slides under the board to get in.  The boys don't mind though as she make a soft warm pillow!




We also ground feed today and took care of some other business.  Was sunny today and it was a good day to have off from work to be home.