rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

He sure looked intrigued with the piglet. Glad that the sow is easy going about it too. How are the other boys liking the piglets?
Yeah, the one you want to get rid of, or is a pain to work with, is always the one that will "out perform"......
Did you get that cold wave through there? It was down to 20 this morning... just plain COLD the past few days with the wind especially....

 

[rachels.haven]

He sure looked intrigued with the piglet. Glad that the sow is easy going about it too. How are the other boys liking the piglets?
Yeah, the one you want to get rid of, or is a pain to work with, is always the one that will "out perform"......
Did you get that cold wave through there? It was down to 20 this morning... just plain COLD the past few days with the wind especially....

We had a cold wave yesterday, but it only got into the 30's, then 50's during the day. It made everyone grumpy. We are wimps now.

The sow had 9 piglets over the course of the whole day. The boarling kept rolling her over so she'd crush them and he'd get all the milk and together they messed up her nest, so we caught his fat, ripped 90 lbs self and "hard weaned" him and gave him an electric fence and a dogloo and I built her a better nest to keep the piglets in and not under her. 5 of the piglets are still alive, one that I saved from under her and convinced not to die (this also made me grumpy). If the boarling irritates me like this again, especially when I'm tired he'll be coming to dinner and we'll get another American Guinea Hog, but a boar.

Shaun likes pigs too much, and he's as loud as the boarling when we take them away. This is going to be complicated, as cute as it is.

Oh yeah, and piglets bite.

 

[Mini Horses]

And they have sharp little teeth!!

 

[farmerjan]

Sows should have a spot where they can farrow with no other interruptions. Didn't think to mention to you that she needed to be by herself. And with the young boar wanting to nurse you are going to have some problems in the future. When you get one that won't quit, they need to go.

 

[rachels.haven]

Sows should have a spot where they can farrow with no other interruptions. Didn't think to mention to you that she needed to be by herself. And with the young boar wanting to nurse you are going to have some problems in the future. When you get one that won't quit, they need to go.

Yeah, I'm annoyed enough at him to process and eat him at this point. He's only 10 weeks old but he'd going through no trauma with the break up and he just killed 4 nice looking gilts to feed his fat face. And previous to this point he was unwilling to stay in any fence if he was not with another pig, which caused a while heap of trouble (or fun for my oldest as he has ALL the pig chasing energy and stamina).
I also might be starting to wonder if he's actually a "kunekune" or a production hog cross because he is getting big mighty fast and definitely doesn't have a scrunched up nose.

 

[Ridgetop]

Love the pix of the LaManchas. Congrats on your Lucky star buckling. Judy Hoy has beautiful animals with exceptional milk yields.

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, I'm annoyed enough at him to process and eat him at this point. He's only 10 weeks old but he'd going through no trauma with the break up and he just killed 4 nice looking gilts to feed his fat face. And previous to this point he was unwilling to stay in any fence if he was not with another pig, which caused a while heap of trouble (or fun for my oldest as he has ALL the pig chasing energy and stamina).
I also might be starting to wonder if he's actually a "kunekune" or a production hog cross because he is getting big mighty fast and definitely doesn't have a scrunched up nose.

Maybe somebody didn’t know one pig from another. He sounds like a real PITA.

 

[rachels.haven]

I'm contemplating overseeding my pasture and liming and fertilzing rather than rounding it up and replanting. The fescue is not strong and there is a lot of bare ground and clover already. Not 80%, but if it gets hot, won't the fescue go dormant and if it's already loosing the war and not doing great could it loose the upper hand and get smothered?

 

[Baymule]

@Mike CHS has fescue in his pastures.

In Texas, the heat cooks it by end of May. I planted Kentucky 32, a non endophyte variety. The sheep loved it.

 

[Ridgetop]

Maybe somebody didn’t know one pig from another. He sounds like a real PITA.

Doesn't PITA - Doesn't that stand for Pork in Tasty Adobo (sauce)?