Pigs in the bush in the back. See the two strands of hot wire that keep them in?
The two gilts we are breeding this spring. The red one with the black mark on her face we think we will call Daisy and the all black one is Blackie. This was before we separated them out and brought the boar home.
A better picture of Blackie. You can also see our pond and a few more pigs.
Lots of pigs lined up by the hot wires. They are super friendly and I'm too big of a chicken to go in there and give scratches so I talk to them over the fence and the follow me that way. This is a better picture of our pond area in the back. Lots of work to be done back there yet. Pretty low on the list at the moment.
Some of you might remember Big Girls one surviving piglet. Here she is on the left in the above picture. She's still a bit smaller then everyone else but she has lots of character! These two pigs are less then two weeks different in age. She's the runt for sure!
Big girl sleeping in a nest by the lagoon. She managed to hurt her front foot, yet again, and wasn't moving around as much as the others. She's much better now but this may be her last year. It's her last chance to raise a litter, of her own, as she has so many problems with her feet and lost all but one piglet last year. If you remember she raised Gillys piglets last summer with her one survivor when Gilly didn't have any milk. Gilly is gone now and hopefully that will change our farrowing out to the better and everyone will be able to raise their own piglets this year.
Oh and these pictures are a few weeks old. Daisy, Blackie, Big Girl and Little Girl are all in a new pen up front now with the boar, Big Red Tamworth. We should have piglets mid/late August. Daisy's piglets will be 3/4 Tamworth, 1/4 Berkshire. Blackies will be half Tamworth, 1/4 old English black and 1/4 Berkshire. Big Girls and Little Girls with all be half Berkshire and half Tamworth, like last year. We are very happy with their piglets from last year!
