The Piglets Arrived Today!!

 Any of you who work with animals know that they wait to have the youngins' on the worst weather days, this pig is no exception, it's cool and rainy this morning and what do we wake up to, 9 new piglets!  If you saw my last update just three days ago I mentioned that I thought she was real close, looks like I was right!

This was a first for us , as far as pigs go, and she seemed to work faster than the goats do, I mean one push and a pig was born! Goats seem to drag it on forever!  But overall I think it went pretty well, the final count so far is three brown and six pinkies, and they are cute.   Momma and babies look like they are doing well!

I am amazed how fast they are up and walking looking for the milk, and the momma doesn't do anything to help them, they find it all on they're own... just amazing!

Here is the last born, fresh out and still messy, but in about a minute he was up and had crawled to the belly and started nursing!  I'll say it again, Amazing!

Hope you enjoyed the  The pix, I'll try to get a video up too, nothing to graphic lol!!

Update! 
Another one born for a total of 10 piglets!! 

Spring Time Is The Busy Time!

  When the weather gets warmer, and the days longer , the work really starts!  Ever since the first week of March it has been non stop here, we built a working pen for the cows and goats, started the big garden, got a new batch of layer hens started, the list goes on and on.  Well lets get started then shall we?

New Layers 

 Trying something new this year, we usually order replacement layers from Ideal Hatchery since they are pretty close, but this year they had a long back order, so we got a few from the local Tractor Supply store, so far they are looking good.

 They have all feathered out and we only lost one, and it drowned in the waterer within 10 minutes of going in the brooder, so overall I'm happy with em, I wasn't really sure they would make it.

Speaking of layers, Spring has brought the eggs back, I can't tell ya how bad I hated buying eggs over the winter, but they are paying off in spades now!

Other News
 
The Piglet watch is on, the big sow is looking very pregnant, so we are keepin a close eye out on the pig pen.

I can still remember when she was just a cute little piggy herself!  Aww!!  My how she has Grown heheheh.

 
The Garden!

 We went bigger this year what with the new tractor and tiller , so we opened up a few bigger garden plots.
And with the help of an Earthway Garden Seeder, we have already put in sweet corn, purple hull peas, okra, yellow and zucchini squash and I'm still working on the tomatoes and peppers , can you see why we've been busy?  If you wanna keep up with the Gardening check out my other site Home-Grown-Vegetables.com.

Well Its time to get back to it, hope ya'll can check back and keep up with the goings on around here!

Until then, Have a great day!!

Well we broke down and got a couple piglets for the freezer, they have a long way to go still.
They are both still a little skittish, they got out after we got them in the temporary pen, and were gone most of the day. They came trotting back around 4:30 pm looking a little rough around the edges, then trying to get them corralled was a sight to see. Don't ever let someone tell you that pigs cant move like lightning...because I'm her to tell you friend, they can!!

Anyway the pigs are back home safe and sound , the permanent pen us under construction and they will be happy and healthy..... until that day!