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Spot the Pigs
Spot the Pigs How many pigs can you spot? This is a game like Where’s Waldo. Realize rocks resemble rooters… Make a guess in comments of the numbers, colors and locations. To know what I saw place...
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Eight Sows and Piglets on Snow
Sows and Piglets Waking on a Snowy Day These eight sows and their 92 piglets are on paddock ten of the upper fields in a grove of trees. The brush and trees provide wind protection. They actually...
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Blustery Piglet Day
PB Just Before Weaning It certainly has been a windy day! And snowy. We spent several hours weaning, inspecting, notating and sorting piglets down from the mountain. It’s time. Everyone is moving off...
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A Dabble of Color Genetics and Winter Pigs
An Even Dozen Piglets This past week we’ve had a surge farrowing with over 30 new piglets. There are many more to come from our winter sows who are in their late weeks of gestation. This group of sows...
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Wikipedia.org Donation
Hannibal† and Piglets in Warmer Times For Christmas this year our family donated to Wikipedia.org and I hope that you will too. Wikipedia is a wonderful source of information for kids (we use it...
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End of Winter Piglets
Spits and Ladies We have had seven litters in the past ten days. There are two more to go. This is a surge as we near the end of the winter litters. We purposefully separated the guys from the gals...
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Underhill Sow Shifting
Underhill Sows Today we shifted sows and gilts out of Underhill and up to the Plateau winter paddock. They had been in with our Tamworth boar, smaller Blackie line boar and MainlinexSpitz boar...
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Measuring Pigs with a Stick
Walter Wanding Pigs Hope snapped this photo of me counting pigs. I’m using my magic pig wand. The stick is a snip of brush I cut to a known length of 48″. Walking around through the crowd like this...
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A Winter’s Farrow
Sunflower and Bee from a Warmer Time Tom asked on the FAQ: I currently have a boar 9 months and two gilts. One 8 months and one 7 months. All in the same pen. By using your pregnancy indicator I...
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South Field Plateau Pig Panorama
South Field Plateau Pigs Pigs and Chickens on the south field plateau looking north towards Sugar Mountain. Off in the distance to the right is Knox Mountain which lies beyond the borders of Sugar...
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Roaster and Rooster
Old Cock A Blackie line roaster gilt pig and an Araucana rooster enjoying the sun on the deep bedding hay pack outside the south field shed. This rooster is getting on in years but still a dominant...
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Five Boars and a Sow
Spitz our Berkshire Boar Someone had asked for pictures of our various boars. These are some of the current gentlemen who service our ladies. Spitz, our Berkshire boar, is not quite as tall as he...
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Why More Big Breasts are Better
Petra Farrowing in Garden Shed – First Piglets Out There was a discussion of genetics over on the post about Five Boars and a Sow which lead to some discussion of tits on a boar, teat count, breast...
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Sleeping Sows South Plateau
Sleeping Sows on Hay We’ve been having some lovely weather. It’s just in the right range of not too bitter but still sunny. When it gets ultra clear in the winter we can get some very cold nights....
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Makin’ Babies
Berkshire Boar Spitz Mating with Large Black Sow Little Lots Caught them in the act! This is Spitz, our Berkshire boar doing his duty with a quite willing lady, one of our Large Black sows. She is...
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Keeping a pig for meat?
Someone wrote in a comment to a previous day’s posting: “I would like to raise pigs for meat for my family. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while. Is it hard to do??? How much space do they...
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Have Your Pig and Eat It Too
Holly Taste Testing a Boar Get in some new boars and one’s considerations go to an old story… There was this city fellow driving out in the country who passed a farm where he sees an old man sitting...
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South Field Winter Paddock
Pigs on South Field Plateau The south field has a plateau we carved which during the summers is a one acre garden for growing pumpkins, beets and other good fall food for the pigs. During the cold...
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Bring Me the Head of Blackbeard!
Ham Cubes from Blackbeard “Bring me the head of Blackbeard!” screamed the governor. And the troops set out in search of that notorious, rascally scallywag, Edward Teach. While Blackbeard was not first...
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Pig vs Trough Size
Small Sow and Little Piglets I’ve previously mentioned that we keep rocks on our troughs so pigs can climb out easily. On the Trough Repair post Adam asked: Just curious, is there a tank of certain...
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