Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[samssimonsays]

those pigs are gorgeous!!!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Wow!!...those are some Sizeable boys there....especially those........ummm....Oysters!....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Holy Guacamole!

 

[Baymule]

I showed my husband your piggies the other night and he thought they were beautiful, he had never seen a Hereford hog and he was smitten! I just showed him the pictures of your piggies sire and grand sire and he was impressed! He goes along with me keeping feeder pigs because he likes the end result. He's not "in love" with pigs, but he said yours are beautiful! He loves their color!

 

[misfitmorgan]

those pigs are gorgeous!!!

I quite agree!

Wow!!...those are some Sizeable boys there....especially those........ummm....Oysters!....

I know, the first time i saw an intacted boar in person i was like "holy "crow" those are some giant "squirrel bait"!!" I'm sure you can figure out the actual words i used

I showed my husband your piggies the other night and he thought they were beautiful, he had never seen a Hereford hog and he was smitten! I just showed him the pictures of your piggies sire and grand sire and he was impressed! He goes along with me keeping feeder pigs because he likes the end result. He's not "in love" with pigs, but he said yours are beautiful! He loves their color!

I completely understand, herefords are what made me fall in love with pigs. That bright white and dark red is just so smart looking. An added bonus is herefords don't get mean with age like a berkshire/a few others will, it is dependent on each boars personality and the caretaker but in general hereford boars stay mild mannered. Ironically the boars so far always nicer and easier to "tame" then gilts in general.

I have been spending a few minutes every night making sure the new/young pigs get handled, i normally do it with anything young we have be it lambs, pigs or poultry. The little white ram is almost to the point of letting me walk right up to him and pet him, he is teetering right on the unsure line atm so a few more days and he should be my buddy. The black ram lamb is more hesitate still but he is ok being handled and petted. The new lambs are in quarantine and not sure about us humans going in their pen yet. I believe i might start taking treats out with me for the young critters....only problem is the adults always smell it too and mob me.

Maybe you guys will end up with a breeder....of the hereford nature Just watch out pig math works the same as all the rest.

Atm our barn has 9 gilt 1 sow 2 barrow and 2 boar, if all the big girls took their breeding we will have piglets the first week of july(alternate dates would be mid-june or late july), and we will be expecting between 32-42 piglets...they should be ready for sale the end of august or as Christmas pork in December. If Eva didnt take she will be processed or sold, DH tried to be nice to me and break our rule of 2 strikes so he told me we could give Eva one more shot if she didnt take...i told him no she can go if she didnt take, it was ok.
The younger(200+lbs) set of gilts we got(leverne and shirly) should be plenty ready for our 4-h breeding in the late fall, the middly young gilt(pink pig) should also be ready as should my two hereford gilts and the big girls will be ready for their next breeding....so potential spring piglets would be 72-88 piglets. We will offer registered hereford piglets and crossbred piglets depending on desired price level of the 4-h kid.

We should also have 5 does breeding for this spring, so 5-10 kids off of our new polled buck Tyrion.

For sheep we should have 4-7 lambs assuming the new girls we just got are not breed ready yet which even if they are i might wait. Downside with suffolk and hamp is they are seasonal breeders. These girls were born in January so this breeding season they will only be at best 11 months old and 16 months old when they lamb. The lamb girls we got last year around this same time were late February lambs(9 months at breeding season) and they did not breed.

The search for a female llama is still going....no luck yet unless i want to pay $1,000 for one.

 

[misfitmorgan]

As if i wasnt long winded enough i forgot!!

Last night we got rock solid evidence our male llama is a great guard llama. He chased a pack of coyotes off of our property and kept watch all night until this morning when DH left the house for work and day break came. The coyotes were between our house and the barn, a whole pack of them.

DH texted me to tell me to beware when i went outside because pilgrim had run up all in a huff until he realized it was DH.

 

[Baymule]

We won't be keeping breeder hogs, we're going to stick to feeder pigs. Once in a great while I see Herefords on Craigslist, but the prices for feeder pigs are ridiculous.

A pack of coyotes between the house and barn? YIKES! We have 2 Great Pyrenees and they bark a warning at night. There are coyotes all around us, but they have not jumped our fences.

 

[goatgurl]

love Hereford hogs. if I could pick one just because I think they are pretty it would be a Hereford. congrats.
good for your llama, the coyotes have been really loud this year around here too. God bless big barky dogs.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We won't be keeping breeder hogs, we're going to stick to feeder pigs. Once in a great while I see Herefords on Craigslist, but the prices for feeder pigs are ridiculous.

A pack of coyotes between the house and barn? YIKES! We have 2 Great Pyrenees and they bark a warning at night. There are coyotes all around us, but they have not jumped our fences.

We paid $500 for our trio that were born mid and late january. So not a bad price for pedigreed and registered show stock.

love Hereford hogs. if I could pick one just because I think they are pretty it would be a Hereford. congrats.
good for your llama, the coyotes have been really loud this year around here too. God bless big barky dogs.

Thank you!

Apparently my dogs are wimps, i had actually let my dog out the doog before i realized there were coyotes out and she heard them and made a full circle back around the porch to the door. This is the 90lb doberdoodle......better yet the doberman had been out before her and apparently just decided to ignore the coyotes.

My head piece and electric fence arrived yesterday. DH is wanting to weld a slant stand now instead of me building it out of wood.....i dunno i think the expanded metal is pretty pricey. I paid $30 for the head piece so it wasnt super expensive but i was trying to make a low cost slant stand for the sheep lol. I also found halters for $3.99 so i ordered a small , medium and large to check sizing. DH also wants me to order canvas coats for the sheep and llama so after we shear them we can put coats on them.....i think i shall pass.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Just because we like pictures around here....the new halters. They seem like really nice quality for $4 each.

Is it silly that i am paranoid about my animals killing themselves if i leave halters on them? Does anyone leave halters on their goats, sheep, llama?