hoozah!

dear beloved reader,

a confessional.  a few days ago, when i told you the pig stork dropped off ten new piglets—well—i lied.  we actually got eleven.  as we were unloading them from the pig crate:

one of them ran away.  we were passing the piglets—by the hind legs, from the crate, off the truck, and into the paddock—when all of a sudden, in a baby pink flash, piglet number eleven roundhouse kicked sous chef francois to his back, triple lindied over the tailgate of our truck, and dashed off into the enchanted woods that lay just beyond pork chop hill. 

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Piglets

some top notch piglet footage up in here.  today we introduced our six new piglets to their remodeled sidecar paddock.  we built a small area for them to live, with trees for shade, while they transition into general population over the next few weeks.

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Birthday!

the piglet’s celebrate their two and a half week old birthday today by, well, doing the same exact thing they do every day. 

bright future ahead though, with a lot of changes to come.  next week we will transition them onto their normal ration, and soon after they will be living up with the big boys on the top of the hill.

three little piggies

babies on board

her and i took the newborn piglet’s back to our house this week, while the ivy’s are out of town, so we can keep a close eye on the lil’ oinkers.  when the ivy’s first pulled the piglet’s, the day before oprah passed, they started emergency bottle feeding with a generic livestock milk replacement—baby formula.  the piglet’s have gone from scrawny, starving, guinea pig looking little creatures to pudgy, happy piglets.  the formula saved their lives.

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piglets on porkchop hill

the piglet’s first few days on pork chop hill, my first birthing experience period, and it feels as if it’s off to a rough start.  after the first few hours four were living, and four and a half were dead (four squashed, one stillborn).  when raised in factories, mother pigs—sows—are kept apart from their piglets by a tightly packed crate.  these farrowing crates allow the hog to barely roll on her side so the piglets locked next door can access the teets.  a sow can be held in the crate for her entire gestation period.

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