A Jesusfreaks tales of farm life with soon to be Six kids

[Jesusfreak101]

So i am pretty thrilled with they way they turned out alittle to much fat but these were potbelly mixed pigs so it is what it is. But honestly i am surprised we got bacon but we did. We got 10 roast(shoulder and boat in butt), 4 ribs, to legs of ham, two sandwich hams, two other ham bits, 6 bacons, 8 pork chops, and bones and 6 or 8 by a of pan sausage.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

So the kids got to experience a very small scale what baling hay use to be like lol. They had to take the coastal after we mowed it and later collected it. We got to large wagon fulls so i won't have to buy hay for now lol. But the pigs are thrilled and the cow and goats should be content with their morning and bed time pen now lol.

 

[Bruce]

My 7yr old wants to start her own company and wants to work work work now lol.

Get her while she's hot. Often that desire to work fades fast when they figure out it is WORK to work

So the kids got to experience a very small scale what baking hat use to be like lol.

Or what making hay used to be like?

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Lol yeah i noticed that had to fix lol

 

[Jesusfreak101]

They got paid 10$ they had to split according to the work they did they 7yr old did all the taking (with my help) the 4ur old helped load and unload and the 2 yr old helped a little. Lol

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Well the mystery plant has been solved its canterloupe melon. Lol oh and the pig house makes the three small pigs happy. They can have dinner under there where the cow and goat can't steal it and away from the bigger pigs. Some of the ducks are on bug patrol and also its about the only way i get eggs is if they are out in the yard over night and I pick them up before the pigs get let out. Granted some ducks are still in the pen and the pigs steal those eggs if i don't find them first lol.

 

[farmerjan]

Nice looking coastal "Hay" . You could bag it in some bags, tops open, and save it for later in the season when it gets hot and dry to give the pigs some "fresh greens" so to speak. It looks pretty nice.
Garden is looking good too.
Kids are cute and it is so much fun to see them so enthusiastic. As @Bruce says, get them involved while it is "fun work". I remember getting my son involved at about 12 or so, letting him drive the truck in the field from pile to pile of the hay we had "raked up" with the old fashioned dump rake. Then loaded it loose on the truck and he drove it out the back lane to the barn and loaded it into the hay mow with the long handled "straw fork". He was already 6 ft tall, so could see to drive the truck, good learning experience with the clutch and gas and standard shift. He got good at backing it up using the side mirrors too, because I would make sure the hay was piled high in the bed so he couldn't use the inside mirror. He can about back anything, anywhere now. He will even brag to people that his mom taught him how to back up the trailer.... sometimes you gotta love them......

 

[Bruce]

They got paid 10$ they had to split according to the work they did they 7yr old did all the taking (with my help) the 4ur old helped load and unload and the 2 yr old helped a little. Lol

The baby didn't help?
By the way you either need to sell a kid or change the name of your journal. No false advertising allowed

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Waiting to hear how your pork tastes, I was wondering about the potbelly pig flavor ??? Is it tasty ???

 

[Jesusfreak101]

I liked it the the kids devoered the pork chops dh said liked it he seem not impressed so much he sensitive to taste difference i didn't taste anything different he said his was alittle on the game side but he tried the kids and mine and said they didn't have the taste he had. I tasted his seemed fine to me but it did look like his was a darker meat.the bacon was good this morning and the sausage got miss labled lol it said pan sausage but taste like Italian. I did order both Italian and breakfast all of them were labeled pan so i thinking either the just labeled them as pan and didn't differ on the breakfast spice or Italian spice. I was disappoint when it was on my biscuit with jelly and it was italian sausage but it very good Italian sausage lol. The bacon was small of course but it was delicious. Josiah ((
2yr) ate like 5-8 piece of the bacon and two sausage patties he also drank two glasses of milk if that says anything lucy ate several pieces of bacon as well and so did I and dh. However joshua has a sore on his check and didn't want to eat it.