Every fall we get cull sweet potatoes from a local farmer to feed to the hogs. What raw meat is to wolves, that’s what sweet potatoes are to hogs. Lisa tossed out about three or four 5 gallon buckets full to the feeder pigs this morning. Now, their lot looks like the carnage left after [...]
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About 1 pm on Thursday, 4/29 Ramble started breating heavy and wouldn’t let Lisa leave her alone. I had to leave to do some shopping and pick Roy up from school. By the time we returned around 3:40pm, Ramble had just pushed out the first piglet. It took her another hour and a half to [...] Welcome friends, neighbors, and new acquaintances! Welcome to our newest venture, a blog about life, culture, agriculture, literature, music, and a plethora of assorted miscellanies, whatever comes to mind. We have been keeping hogs for almost a year now, but our breeding herd, members of which will offer commentary from time to time, is just coming [...] |
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