Drstratton - My Backyard Journey Journal

[drstratton]

First taste of earthworms...one of my EE's figured out how tasty these are and I think she ate most of them! Most of the flock were totally clueless as to what all the excitement was about...lol!

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[drstratton]

We finally picked up the pigs today! They are very skittish! Let me introduce Porkchop, Bacon, Hamhock & Pulled Pork(aka, Kalua)! That's how I will have to look at them...lol!

There is safety when you climb on top of your litter mates!

I showed them the food, but I will have to go out tomorrow and make sure they are eating! They did manage to find the water!

 

[Baymule]

You have a beautiful yard. Very pretty!

cute piggies, they don't stay that way for long!

 

[drstratton]

You have a beautiful yard. Very pretty!

cute piggies, they don't stay that way for long!

Thank you! It's our little oasis in the midst of sand & sagebrush!

They are cute when they're little, hopefully they will grow fast and calm down a little! I will have to spend some time with them, I don't want them to be to wild!

 

[Baymule]

Slaughter places around here are busy places. I learned to set a slaughter date when I get the pigs, to assure that I don't get stuck feeding hungry bottomless pits for months because I can't get a slaughter date. One year, we had a slaughter party and butchered 3 hogs ourselves. They were eating a 50 pound bag every 2 days and the closest slaughter date I could get was 3 months out. I start a new thread each time I have feeder pigs, that one comes with a full pictorial on slaughter and cutting up the meat. LOL

 

[drstratton]

Slaughter places around here are busy places. I learned to set a slaughter date when I get the pigs, to assure that I don't get stuck feeding hungry bottomless pits for months because I can't get a slaughter date. One year, we had a slaughter party and butchered 3 hogs ourselves. They were eating a 50 pound bag every 2 days and the closest slaughter date I could get was 3 months out. I start a new thread each time I have feeder pigs, that one comes with a full pictorial on slaughter and cutting up the meat. LOL

Good morning! My husband and I were just talking about that yesterday! We will have them butchered by someone...we could do it ourselves, but don't want to! Our friend who has the other 2 pigs wants to do it himself! I didn't think about setting a slaughter date with the butcher, thank you so much for that information! I'm going to check out your slaughter thread! That is a lot of food to go through. We bought 2 tons of bulk feed, hopefully that will work out just right! What weight do you like to slaughter your pigs at? Our friend wants to go to 300, but when our kids did 4h they wanted them at 275.

 

[drstratton]

It was very windy yesterday into last night! We realized that we needed to add some wind protection. The shelter used to sit along the fence where the feeder is at. We used to have a smaller double feeder and it sat to the right of where the new feeder is. We wanted to be able to fill the feeder from the other side of the fence, so we had to move the shelter to make room for this huge feeder. It will be nice as the pigs grow. I'm not sure that they figured out the feeder, so I scrounged around, found an old garbage can lid, made a hollow in the ground, set some blocks in the middle (my husband's suggestion) and filled it with food. I also wired open the feeder until I know they have it all figured out! They are tired babies today!

 

[drstratton]

When we were getting things ready to have our new well pump installed I came across a very old nest of quail eggs! I decided to bring them in and display them. This is possibly a temporary display. It's a little bag that had Pistachio nuts in it, I'm going to try to come up with something better, but I think this is cute for now. I remembered that the nest where I found the eggs had feathers in it, so I went out and collected them. Some were just fluffy and I used those as fillers, others had colored tips, so I used them as accents! This was a fun little project that brightened my day! Hopefully it will brighten someone else's!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

very cute!

 

[drstratton]

I have a sick chick and I was so distracted this morning, I posted it in another thread I had created about buying beef...
I'm going to post it here, because it's part of my journey and I want to keep it all in one place!