Monday, May 9, 2011

Piggies arrived!!

Going fishing?! Nope, the piggies arrived...




The tiniest we've ever had...so cute...see this one? He had a running tour of our farm.

We brought him out of the trailer and placed him in his pen, surrounded by a nice electronet fence, charged to it's fullest (it hurts!) The darn thing ran right thru. See two accidental farmers chasing said pig up and down the strawberry patch.
The fishing net came in handy!






A fence change was required. We put another more finely woven electronet fence around the white fence and then put the piggies in. They took longer than we expected to learn NOT to run between the fences....YOUCH!!!






They are pretty happy now - vetch, chickweed and RYE can do that for you. Here Tractor Don is out trying to catch one with a sore foot that needs some tending......The chickens have seen a change though.....




The orange electronet was around them and afforded them a much larger pasture....so now we have to move them every two days.....working well so far!


Sterling, my Splash Ameraucana Rooster! I'm very excited...as we also have a few eggs in the new incubator......only 42 of them.....


Stay tuned.....

1 comment:

Andrea said...

42???? And that is a darn cute piggy. Great story about all the fencing:)