Archive for 'Pigs'
Posted: July 15th, 2008 by
Lisa
Water for all the critters is something that takes up small chunks of time all day long. I must fill water buckets for everyone at least four times a day. I wonder about bigger containers, but the pigs flip theirs so quickly and Albus sits or lays in his that bigger doesn’t help. Since
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Posted under Ducks, Geese, Pigs, Sheep, water.
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Posted: April 18th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re
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Posted under Carrots, Ducks, Frogs, Geese, Honey Bees, Icelandic, Lettuce, Mice, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Turkeys, parsnips, spinach.
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Posted: April 10th, 2008 by
Lisa
Flickr is now allowing short video clips. I finally figured out how to make my camera take a video and what software to use to get it to Flickr. (All by myself! Go me.) If I can link them properly in the same fashion, here are some clips from yesterday. I still need to get several critters to perform on command, so stay tuned, and hope for better weather. It’s horribly windy and cold out there today.
Posted under Birds, Bjarki, Chickens, Critters, Dogs, Ewes, Geese, Icelandic, Llama, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Shetland, Turkeys, Töfradís, Wether, videos.
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Posted: March 29th, 2008 by
Frank
Hermione finally had her piglets yesterday, 119 days after coming home from East Hill Farm. Nominal pig gestation is 115 days: She pushed it as hard as she could and of course had them in a snowstorm. The good news is that all is well, six live piglets that she is feeding and looking
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Posted under Chickens, Ducks, Farm Life, ForSale, Geese, Pigs, Snow, Tech Stuff, Turkeys.
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Posted: March 17th, 2008 by
Lisa
Wow did we have pig DRAMA today. Hermione is ready to pop any second, I swear. She looks so uncomfortable, so huge. Ginny found a way back from the horse pasture and went into the Pig Palace, where Hermione pitched a fit to end all fits. Get OUT. Get OUT! From now on, every
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Posted: March 16th, 2008 by
Lisa
Oh mud season has begun. Ms. Minerva would like nothing else than for me to sit my tushie down on the ground so she can climb up onto my lap. But it’s a muddy mucky mess out there! She has to satisfy herself for however long it takes before my legs start to cramp.
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Posted under Pigs, Seed Starting, celery.
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Posted: March 13th, 2008 by
Lisa
Hermione looks like she is going to pop any second now. We still have both she and Ginny in the Pig Palace, because we just couldn’t figure out another place to put one of them, but it’s really bothering me. I don’t want them to be together when Hermione gives birth, because Ginny is
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Posted: March 3rd, 2008 by
Lisa
When we last wrote, we were expecting the pigs to farrow any day. Well, we woke up Saturday morning (Feb. 16), I let the dogs out and they started barking their fool heads off immediately, so we knew something was up. Sure enough, we had piglets, who were squealing and crying, which is what
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Posted: February 8th, 2008 by
Lisa
Ginny and Hermione, our two Tamworth gilts, are due to farrow any day now, we think. It will probably be the second or third week in February. They are looking very, very pregnant, and the milk ridge is starting to develop. Since we’ve never had piglets before, it’s a bit scary, to be honest. Ginny
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Posted: January 31st, 2008 by
Lisa
I’ve been calling around to various places, looking for stuff to feed the pigs. Left over stuff, stale bread, etc. We’ve been getting left over bagels from Bagel Works a couple of times a week, and boy do the pigs and chickens like that! But with feed prices as high as they are, we
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Posted under Chickens, Pigs, Sheep.
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