Carla D
True BYH Addict
This morning when we went to the farm it was a complete cluster____.
We were greeted by our intermediate size pigs in a pasture two away which is up against the barn. Spot was in his old area, which he really likes. Then our four big sows were everywhere in between. The snow is so deep where our teenager pigs are. They could easily walk over the fence if they were interested in anything on the other side of the fence. The big door at the back of the barn had been busted down. The top half of that has been covered with boards to keep some of the weather out of the barn and we had long strips of leather belt attached to the bottom to keep more weather out yet allpigs to come and go as they please. The roof of the barn has at least 8-10” of snow on it. Then we have so much snow here that we really don’t have a place to put it even if the tractor was big enough to move it.
We believe the culprit to all of our our bigger pigs not being in their appropriate pasture is Spot, our big boar. One of his girls, Halfy is in heat. She was in the pasture with the three intermediate pigs we have. She had been put into a different pasture that her typical mates, her sisters and her boar because she was being beaten on by her sisters and not allowed to seek shelter in the barn with the rest of her clan. Spot wanted his Halfy. He’s been known to JUMP the fence to gain access to our younger girls when they are in heat. There isn’t typically any snow on the ground in the fall when he was “jumping hurdles”. We think the door covering was bustdown because the big pigs were unable to get in thrithe bottom part because the snow had gotten too high for them to gain access. I think we have had between 2-3’ of snowfall in the last 3-4 days. Today we are supposed to not be getting anymore snow. But Tuesday through the weekend we are supposed be getting a good amount of snow each day. We are really in trouble if the snow doesn’t stop falling soon. We will not only have pigs where we don’t want them, we’ll be hunting them doin all of the snow in the yard, the nearby field, or the neighbors place. All 8 of these pigs are getting too big to be tryto get them back into their pastures.
These intermediates should not be coming and going into the barn. They have their own shelter.
This is the gate that Spot somehow managed to break open to get at his girl, Halfy.
This gate has been open for a few weeks so four of our pigs would have a little more space than they would have, had we not opened the gate.
This is our amorous big boar, Spot. Look at how deep that snow is. He could walk over that fence if he wanted to. He has jumped this fence a couple of times when there wasn’t snow on the ground.
This door had been covered all winter, until today. The barn was every bit as cold as it was outside. It’s typically 20-30 degrees warmer in the barn when everything is buttoned up in this cold. Not this morning.
Look at the icicles forming on the roof. They have only been there a couple of days. There are more pictures coming in the comments.
We were greeted by our intermediate size pigs in a pasture two away which is up against the barn. Spot was in his old area, which he really likes. Then our four big sows were everywhere in between. The snow is so deep where our teenager pigs are. They could easily walk over the fence if they were interested in anything on the other side of the fence. The big door at the back of the barn had been busted down. The top half of that has been covered with boards to keep some of the weather out of the barn and we had long strips of leather belt attached to the bottom to keep more weather out yet allpigs to come and go as they please. The roof of the barn has at least 8-10” of snow on it. Then we have so much snow here that we really don’t have a place to put it even if the tractor was big enough to move it.
We believe the culprit to all of our our bigger pigs not being in their appropriate pasture is Spot, our big boar. One of his girls, Halfy is in heat. She was in the pasture with the three intermediate pigs we have. She had been put into a different pasture that her typical mates, her sisters and her boar because she was being beaten on by her sisters and not allowed to seek shelter in the barn with the rest of her clan. Spot wanted his Halfy. He’s been known to JUMP the fence to gain access to our younger girls when they are in heat. There isn’t typically any snow on the ground in the fall when he was “jumping hurdles”. We think the door covering was bustdown because the big pigs were unable to get in thrithe bottom part because the snow had gotten too high for them to gain access. I think we have had between 2-3’ of snowfall in the last 3-4 days. Today we are supposed to not be getting anymore snow. But Tuesday through the weekend we are supposed be getting a good amount of snow each day. We are really in trouble if the snow doesn’t stop falling soon. We will not only have pigs where we don’t want them, we’ll be hunting them doin all of the snow in the yard, the nearby field, or the neighbors place. All 8 of these pigs are getting too big to be tryto get them back into their pastures.
These intermediates should not be coming and going into the barn. They have their own shelter. This is the gate that Spot somehow managed to break open to get at his girl, Halfy.This gate has been open for a few weeks so four of our pigs would have a little more space than they would have, had we not opened the gate.This is our amorous big boar, Spot. Look at how deep that snow is. He could walk over that fence if he wanted to. He has jumped this fence a couple of times when there wasn’t snow on the ground. This door had been covered all winter, until today. The barn was every bit as cold as it was outside. It’s typically 20-30 degrees warmer in the barn when everything is buttoned up in this cold. Not this morning. Look at the icicles forming on the roof. They have only been there a couple of days. There are more pictures coming in the comments.
They will just have to stay in the barn during snow storms!
