Showing posts with label piglets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piglets. Show all posts

Thursday, August 3, 2017

What an Anniversary this Year




       Now here is an anniversary I will not soon forget. My Hubby went to see his dad at the hospital while I was at work. My daughter picked me up and brought me home. I knew I would have to tend to the animals when I got home, because he would not have been here at feeding time. First thing we see is Jacob the goat in the yard waiting for us.  Now how in the world did he get out of the pen this time? He followed me up to the house, so I had to let him in  and fed him. I hurried up and gathered the buckets of food and went on down to feed everyone. When I got to the pig pen I found my surprise, four baby pigs from Lady Cersei. I found one more that had got out of the pen and had wandered to the boy’s pen and had got caught in the fence. She had a few puncture wounds in her side. I brought her up to the house to clean her up and put her in a container for Pooh to look at her. Back to the chores I went. Fed and watered the rabbits. Watered all the animals at the barn. Rewired the fence and put the goat back in his pen. I did all of this before Pooh came home.
       We went to the barn and got the baby pen set up and Lady in with her babies, in the meantime two of the other girls escaped out the gate. Thankfully they love to eat and more food brought them right back in. The baby is being treated with red oil and put back with her momma. We have three girls and two boys.
I am exhausted now. Too tire to worry about an anniversary. After 27 years some times  farming happens.

Friday, January 20, 2017

From 2 to 12 in a Matter of a Week




In just a few short days we have gone from 2 very fat momma pigs to 12 pigs. As you may have read earlier that we had one of our momma’s Agatha give birth to 4 babies. Three girls and one boy. Well, when I got off to work this morning I got a message soon after telling me we have 6 more babies.  This is a pig stock is up and running now.It amazes me that  the first batch is out running and even eating the sweet feed their momma's leave in the pen. All in all I think we only have one boy in the whole bunch.

On another note we did get the other two hogs processed and now have a freezer full of meat, but in that process the bottom hinge on the freezer door broke and now we had to get it fixed. We have 70 pounds of sausage now so I am glad I am a great biscuit maker and make a mean batch of gravy.