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When it’s all said and done I’ll have about 5000+ sows, mostly largewhite/landrace crosses with some purebred large white. Usually about double that in piglets at any given time, our first gilts are set to farrow Sunday but I’ll probably see some this evening or tomorrow

And we’re back! Sorry folks it’s been a crazy crazy month! Between shipping out all of my pigs and cleaning my barns and my wife’s health problems I haven’t had time to do anything! But now I’m getting new pigs in and my wife’s health is better (I won’t say great, this pregnancy is really...

Sorry getting caught up now. Good looking lambs for this year congratulations! Keep those pics comin. And sorry for that poor boy, seatbelts can save lives. I had a cousin who taught me when I was little it was cool to not wear seat belts. He was ejected through the front windshield in a...

I had a similar problem. The problem you’ll run into is what is under the fence? I had mats under mine to prevent digging, and if you have something similar or concrete it will insulate and your dog won’t get a shock. I actually tied a piece of wire from the fence back to a grounding point...

No worries I appreciate you anyway Bruce! Latestarter I’m glad you’ve got your priorities straight, I too enjoy a good steak but pork for everything else. But what’s a pelagic? That’s not a term I’m familiar with

Really good thanks! I spent most of it in meetings, but the pork market is doing well and there’s some good changes coming in the pork industry. Special thanks to all the fine folk who buy pork products to support your local pig farmers, it’s much appreciated

Well I didn’t pack any water back with me, but we did get 6 inches of snow which was great. Set to rain late this week and it’s gonna start getting warmer, so I should be able to start corrals soon. Also, the ducks finally started earning their keep. They were supposed to start October or...

We do need the moisture. If it doesn’t snow between now and next week I may be able to get my corrals up. After the snow it kinda warmed back up enough that a tractor wouldn’t have a problem augering out a post hole. I wouldn’t have a problem with a set of post hole diggers probably but why...

So there I was all set to start putting up new corrals, and it dumps snow. Today it’s snowing again. Supposed to snow again Tuesday. I’m grateful I really am, but the timing was terrible. Good news is we are now at 40% of normal. It’s been the driest winter in 30 years, and it’s really sad...

Sorry late comer here. Looking at your pictures I have to agree that whatever killed your lambs was a predator of the two legged variety. Having seen my fair share of predator kills, as well as scavenger meals, I’ve never seen a head removed so cleanly and taken while leaving the rest of the...

Well it’s been a busy day. Picked up most of the posts for our future sheep corral today. A rancher friend replaced his heifer pen with steel posts like we did his horse corral and lots of the posts were still in good shape so he gifted them to me for all my help. What I can’t use as posts...

It’s snowing! Not real hard mind you but I’ll take what I can get. And the ducks are happy as can be

That’s good news. Hopefully more to follow on the 21st

I had to look at this because I had no idea what a dog sploot was. Dixie does this all the time, but we’ve alway called it frogdog

I hope it’ll just take PT to fix it. I had shoulder surgery last year after working through the pain for 14 years and it made a world of difference, i feel so much better. But that was a torn labrum and bicep, if it’s a complete shoulder I can only repeat what my father-in-law said and deal...

A lot has changed from the range wars. My friend uses the pasture just north of my home for calving, and this year he’s added 150 pregnant ewes in there with them. Apparently they decided to try raising sheep as well but didn’t have anywhere else to put them. I’m seeing some calves and lambs...

So went to the doctors today. Got good news, great news, but no answers. The good news is the MRI, CT scans, and EKG all cane back clean. So while that rules out MS, tumors, or strokes we still have no idea why she’s experiencing numbness and weakness on one side (there’s days she cant hold a...

So we’re at a holding point for a minute on getting sheep. My wife has been having some really strange health issues lately (numbness on one side, facial numbness, lots of headaches) and had to go in for an MRI on Saturday. Hopefully it’s nothing but they’re talking clot or tumor or MS which...

We have what they call a frost free hose bib which generally won’t freeze. Sometimes I still put a heat tape on it just to make sure but that’s only for when it gets really cold. To keep ice out of water trough I’ll use a stock tank heater with a thermostat so it will only kick on at a certain...

The neighbors really aren’t too bad and I wouldn’t even mind the dogs if they didn’t kill livestock. I love dogs, my moms a dog groomer so we grew up with all sorts of dogs running around and I’ll probably have dogs until I die, but I will not abide a livestock killer. Jackrabbits are fine...