Pigs Love Water

pigs love water, hoses make water, and pigs are smart.  so by now, i should really know better than to turn my back on a pig.  each time i stick the hose into the herd’s waterer i risk pignanigans. but with pregnant pigs, newborns, and jah’s lush woods surrounding me, i oftentimes find myself distracted by a this or a that. 

with about seventy gallons of head room left to fill in the tank, i decided to do a quick stroll around the paddock. 

on my return, i found this clown in the video—-smiiiiiling away. 

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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a brief history of synchronized swine swimming

after three months of intense and private rehearsals, pork chop hill’s elite synchronized swine quintet, the pot-bellied flops, held a dance recital on the main stage wallow.  communities of wild hogs choreographing elaborate dance routines for mating orgies have been recorded since early human cave drawings, straight through to journals on the american homesteading frontier. the existence of these communities of synchronized swine dramatically predates the origins of the now olympic level sport by over seven thousand years.  it is of no coincidence that the sport’s official selection as a summer olympic sport in the mid eighties came at the exact moment as the hog industry’s still famous pork:  the other white meat campaign. 

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