BIG PIGS!

Taking a break from the heat of the day. 

Just for reference... that pig laying on the right? She's probably around 250 lbs. 

That pig with her butt to us?? That's Little Girl.. she's OH about 500 lbs.

And that last pig? That's BIG Momma.. and she's oh about 600++ lbs... 

Big Momma and Little girl are our breeding stock.. purebred Berkshires. They'll be having piglets mid August along with a new breeder; known so far as 'the gilt' who is only half Berkshire. 

Rye In The Pig Pen.

Beautiful isn't it??

Remember this??   Yup that is the same pig pen :) Just taken from a bit different angle. 

It is amazing what a month can do :) 

This is the same general area but facing slightly to the left. It is not doing quite as well as it had pigs in it a bit longer then the first pen and it was their winter pen but it is coming along nicely. 

Ham & Bacon. A Continuing Piglet Story.

Well these two little guys got moved out of my house a couple of weeks ago now and are happily living in the chick barn. Ham is still bigger and dumber then Bacon :) He was downing 2 six oz bottles of milk 3 times a day instead of drinking out of the feed bucket like Bacon until we skipped a couple of feeds and he had to learn to fend for himself!! Bacon figure out that feed bucket super fast :) 

I just realized I should have had a kid in there for size comparison, but I didn't so you'll have to believe me when I tell you they are doing really well and getting quite a nice size for being 6 weeks old. Bacon is still very much the runt but he'll catch up eventually. I believe the plan is to give them a few more weeks in the barn and then move them out on to grass in electric netting. They are still very tame and love to suck on the kids clothes/shoes and anything else they can reach. 

House Update :) June 2013

It's been slower going then we'd hoped but we are slowly getting the walls ready for stucco. 

We've been working on getting the straw walls ready to stucco. Here is our bedroom wall at the back of the house. Almost ready to stucco!! 

Looking down the house. The walls on the right are ready to stucco. The wall on the left needs that board along the top insulated and lathed before stuccoing. I should have taken a picture of the front wall.. you can sort of see it here at the far end. It needs to be finished/sealed yet on the top but the rest of it is finished. 

Part of our new 'to us' cupboards for the house. There is a lot of them and I can't wait to be able to use them :) 

Papa weed whacking the outside of the house. Weed whacking gets the loose straw off the walls and helps the stucco to stick better. It also helps you to find holes that will need lathe to make the wall straight.. there is one such hole on the right side of the picture in the middle before the window.

The finished outside corner. Before you could see the pole inside the wall and now you can't :)