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Sows Migrating North
Two Sows in Pigs on Clover Earlier this month we weaned the south sow herd and rotated 38 of them north to Spitz and Whitey’s domain for breeding. About a dozen were already bred by Spitzon and...
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Moo Cow Sow
Moo Cow Sow chewing her cud… Occasionally some miss-informed individual tells me that pigsh can’t eat grass, can’t eat hay, can’t thrive on pasture. When I relay this message to my sows it sends them...
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Curly Pig Tails
Pigs Following Walter in North Field Outdoors: 67°F/44°F Mostly Sunny Tiny Cottage: 66°F/60°F Daily Spark: When life gives you melons make melon balls. Related posts: Angela Grazing – Hot Dogs Here...
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Pastured Pigs, Green Grass, Blue Sky
Pastured Pigs, Green Grass, Blue Sky Just a photo from a walk in the field… We’ve been having some lovely early fall weather. The photo above of sows from the upper paddock of the south field shows...
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Vet Visit
Panorama of South Field Gathering of Pigs – Click on the picture to zoom larger. This is the fall sleeping area for the south herd. You can see some hay bales we put out which draws them in to sleep...
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Pomace Party
Hope with North Field Herd at Pomace Party One thing that we sometimes have for the pigs is apple pomace, the crushed remains of apples after making cider. Some natural sugars, vitamins, minerals and...
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Fall Sows and Piglets
Sows Grazing in North Field The recent rains are pulling down the fall foliage leaves but this is what it looked like just before the down pour. Sugar Mountain where our sugar bush hangs on the...
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Pig Pond North Field
Pigs at the North Field Pig Pond Pigs love water. On hot summer days they look like hippos swimming in their ponds. We have dug a number of shallow ponds, perhaps 10′ to 20′ wide which catch water....
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Brassicas Endure
Brassica Stub The pigs tend to eat the leaves of kale, cabbage, broccoli and other brassicas during the warm months, leaving the roots to continue growing. A good sustainable practice. It’s...
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Gathering Grasses
Sow Gathering Grass Just like in the story of the three little pigs the sows build their nests of straw (hay or grasses), sticks and stones. This sow is building her second nest. Sows build a first...
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Winter’s Here
Upper Pond & Cottage As noted yesterday, winter arrived at 1:03 pm on Wednesday. Punctually on schedule. This morning we woke up to about 10″ of snow. The world has changed from grey November to...
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Laceration
Spitzon’s Gash Spitzon, son of Spitz, made a mistake. About a month ago he left his south field territory and went north where his father reigns supreme. This was a mistake because not only is Spitz...
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Intermission
Sows and Hens on Green Pasture Just a reminder lest we forget the color green… This is the photo that did not make it onto our 2015 Sugar Mountain Farm Calendar cover. The careful eye of those who...
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Winter Piglets
Winter Piglets with Pretty Girl Sow These are not all her piglets and some of her piglets are on other sows. Rather some of the 23 piglets belonging to three sows in the lower garden which is one of...
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Winter Shoats
Winter Shoats on Hay Did you know that at a certain stage young pigs are called shoats? This is after they’re weaners and before they’re growers. Check out the FAQ page for more fun pig terms and...
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Intermission
Sows and Hens on Green Pasture Just a reminder lest we forget the color green… This is the photo that did not make it onto our 2015 Sugar Mountain Farm Calendar cover. The careful eye of those who...
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Winter Sows
Sows in Winter Garden During the warm months our pigs graze on about 40 acres of pasture using managed rotational grazing techniques that we originally learned with our sheep. This produces most of...
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Classic Large White Sow
Yorkshire Sow Charlie has the classic Large White a.k.a. Yorkshire pig form. She’s long. She’s big. She’s great on pasture. She’s a wonderful mother. Charlie, along with two other sows, farrowed in...
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Field Bed and Natural Terracing
Pigs in South Field Copse The pigs in the south field herd have a large nesting area on the sunny side of a copse of trees in the upper paddock which they’re using as a winter paddock this year....
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Killing with CO2
Unsuspecting Aphids – Little Did They Know… Holly was given a plant this summer that she’s experimenting with keeping alive over the cold season despite our low light winter conditions and cool...
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