Carla D-Great new adventures and an Amazing Life

[Carla D]

They are catching up! Good job!

They sure have. I’m pretty sure I’ve been overfeeding them with their grain. But now that they are weened and eating lots of hay, I’m cutting back on that as well. I do have 150# of grains to in the barn. But, like others have said, they have become brats. The grain may actually go away entirely eventually.

 

[Baymule]

Your Grandma lives on in you. As her grand daughter, you have her as part of who you are, as does your daughter. I am the family oldster now, although I don't feel old, LOL. Family generations move forward, molded and shaped by the generations before them and around them. Don't be sad for your Grandma, rejoice and be glad that she no longer suffers with cancer. She is still with you, looking after you. Remember her with joy and concentrate on the happy memories.

My sister and I sat at her table Christmas night reminiscing about old times, relatives long gone, their quirks and traits and memories of them. It was fun, we laughed, our sister-in-law told stories of her husband, our brother and while we miss him, it was fun to share memories about him. My 11 year old grand daughter sat nearby, soaking it all up, we told stories of our parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles and had a good time remembering all that have gone before us. While I am not one to look back much, it was fun to share memories and laugh about them.

Maybe next year you could tell stories about your Grandma, funny, sad and filled with the love you have for her. It would make you feel better to share fun stories of what she meant to you. Trust me on this.

 

[Carla D]

Your Grandma lives on in you. As her grand daughter, you have her as part of who you are, as does your daughter. I am the family oldster now, although I don't feel old, LOL. Family generations move forward, molded and shaped by the generations before them and around them. Don't be sad for your Grandma, rejoice and be glad that she no longer suffers with cancer. She is still with you, looking after you. Remember her with joy and concentrate on the happy memories.

My sister and I sat at her table Christmas night reminiscing about old times, relatives long gone, their quirks and traits and memories of them. It was fun, we laughed, our sister-in-law told stories of her husband, our brother and while we miss him, it was fun to share memories about him. My 11 year old grand daughter sat nearby, soaking it all up, we told stories of our parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles and had a good time remembering all that have gone before us. While I am not one to look back much, it was fun to share memories and laugh about them.

Maybe next year you could tell stories about your Grandma, funny, sad and filled with the love you have for her. It would make you feel better to share fun stories of what she meant to you. Trust me on this.

That does sound like an amazing idea. But my grandmother and grandfather have very deep connections with my little girl. My grandmother was watching over Abigail when she was born. She told my baby that now was the time to fight for life and love not time to join them in heaven yet. My grandfather used to watch over her when she was sleeping. I’ve seen his orbs several times. He was fierce with his love for his granddaughter and two greatgranddaughters. My grandmother and I also have a very special connection to each other.

 

[Carla D]

Sorry that the holidays are so sad for you. I know your grandma loved you.

Yes. I know she did as well. My grandmother and I had a very special connection.

 

[Carla D]

Our little farm grew today by 13. My personal and very favoritest sow, Half-and-Half delivered 13 perfect, alive, healthy, and very active little pigs this morning. Every one of them survived except one of them. We are going to take the blame for that death. She laid on it only because we disrupted her and her babies by mushing on her. This is her second big litter for being only 1.5 years old. This is the first one she’s ever laid on. All of hers have been born alive. We only lost two of them in her first litter. I don’t remember why either. I was never positive that she was pregnant this time around until her belly dropped and her teats engorged. That was only last week when that happened. She did not like being pregnant at all this time. She got injured the day we released her and her babies out of their farrowing crate this spring. That is when I became so attached to her. We isolated her so she could heal her leg. She got so much attention while she was healing. All I had to do was walk in the barn and say “Hey Beautiful.” And she came running to the gate with pure excitement to see me and she never once walked away from the chance to be pampered. She loved it when I brought her bouquets of “ditch weed/wild flowers” for a sweet snack. Here’s a video of my beautiful girl and her new large pig pile of babies. Halfy even had two more babies born after this video was made. We thought she was done. But, she proved us wrong. She even farrowed 4 days earlier than we expected her to. Her sisters all made us wait at least three-four weeks longer than expected.

 

[Carla D]

Here is some of the fun and frisky goings on with our roughly two month old feeder pigs. Just like most things in my life they settled down once my camera/phone came out to record them. Half Pint, our runt of the bunch has grown to become one mischievous little instigators. He’s not afraid to poke the bear on any of his mates. None of these guys/gals are very friendly. But, they have been coming around some, lately. Our runt Half Pint is in the last couple of seconds of the video. He is such a little corker.

 

[Bruce]

Start the video. In the top left corner is your YouTube image, wedding couple kissing. Next to that the title of this video "Feeling frisky today"


Lots of nice looking pigs!

 

[Carla D]

Start the video. In the top left corner is your YouTube image, wedding couple kissing. Next to that the title of this video "Feeling frisky today"


Lots of nice looking pigs!

That is hilarious! I didn’t even notice that.

 

[luvmypets]

Nothin sweeter than a good sow and her newborn babies, dangit I don't think I can wait until the end of February to see some little piggies at our place. After what happened with your most recent litter, you definitely deserved this surprise! I loved how quiet she was when they started fussing, our sow would probably start talking "is everyone ok" and if they got really loud she might even jump up and give me the death glare

 

[Carla D]

Nothin sweeter than a good sow and her newborn babies, dangit I don't think I can wait until the end of February to see some little piggies at our place. After what happened with your most recent litter, you definitely deserved this surprise! I loved how quiet she was when they started fussing, our sow would probably start talking "is everyone ok" and if they got really loud she might even jump up and give me the death glare

Halfy is one of the mellowest pigs we own. The second mellowest oddly enough is our 500# boar, Spot. He’s the father to every baby we’ve had on our farm so far. Every single piglet of his has at least one spot on them. Our next round of babies starts in March with two gilts and continues for a month-month and a half with our experienced sows. Two months after that Halfy will likely have another batch. I’m thinking we will hit the baby lottery in September or October when our youngest girls could be having their first batch of babies. We have 8 of those. We are finally set up so we could have baby pigs every couple of months in 2019. We are either going to buy a bigger property for all of our animals or build a farrowing barn, bunny shed, and a kidding building or area. My husband has a hard time parting with his female pigs. He wants to breed each of them twice before deciding what to do with them.

We don’t even know what Halfy had in her litter. All we know is she has had at least 4 females and 2 males. Haven’t determined the rest yet. Probably tomorrow when we give them an iron shot. We currently have two really young boars that we may want to breed. But that would leave us with four boars.