Baymule's Pigs 2018 HEREFORDS!

[CrealCritter]

I got tin hung on the back of the Hawg Hut today.

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DH and Robert stretched a span of wire. DH drove the mule around to the property next to us and ran the winch cable through our fence.

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They hung a gate.

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We knocked off at 2:30 so we could go pick up a 275 gallon tote. The guy was out of blue barrels, I let out a loud NNOOOO!!!!! I need one for a pig feeder! I must have made him feel bad. He said he was getting more on Saturday and he’d give me one.

The bee's knees right there it's a hog palace!

Is the 275 gallon tote for hog water?

 

[baymule]

Yep, the tote is for hog water. Going to run a hog nipple through the wire.

 

[baymule]

The guys ran the last span of wire today. I finished hanging the tin. They pounded all the T-posts and told me clipping them was my job. LOL

I tried screwing down the poor people’s edge trim, but it was hard. So the men took over, bending it down and screwing it down.

Here’s a shot of the inside. The open space is where I can feed the pigs from the outside. The blue barrel in the corner is for soured corn, I’ll cut a hole in it so they can eat. The metal bin will be next to the barrel and is for pellet Feed.

I went back out after supper and clipped the bottom 3 clips on the T-posts. DH dug sassafras roots and I made tea for tomorrow.

 

[baymule]

How do you do these things? Free chickens, free barrels.... sigh. I mean - do you cry? Do tears work? Or do you get loud and angry or pout? Sweet talk? Bargaining? I need to take a lesson or twelve! LOL!

Congrats! Hawg hut is looking great!

I'm just a real nice person.......with the gift of gab. I'm friendly like a big wet dog with muddy feet, give me a minute and we'll be best friends, 2-3 minutes and we'll be kin.

Nope, I don't cry, don't get loud or angry-people have to put up with A-holes all the time, so a friendly, caring person with a smile brings out the best in them.

A gas pipeline runs through our place. I called them because we were going to go across it with fence. A man came out to mark the pipeline. I asked what size gate to put up for their access, other questions, stressing that I wanted to do things right and respect the pipeline. We had a good conversation in which he told me he had just been cussed out and yelled at by a land owner that very morning. I was appalled at the ugly people he had to put up with. He said all he was able to do was to say "Yes sir. Yes sir." and could not so much as raise his voice or he'd be fired. He said he got cussed out all the time.

As our conversation concluded, he said I had been so nice to him that he was going to send out a couple of contractors the next morning to put up the gate for me. And he sent the gate and posts for the H braces too.

The 2 guys who came out to hang the gate were friendly nice guys. I gave them iced tea, ran the water hose over for them to use and was nice to them. They also said that people gave them a hard time all the time. Since I was so nice, they gave me 2 spools of smooth twisted wire, like barbed wire, but without the barbs. We have used that wire for every cross wire on every H brace on this place!

 

[CrealCritter]

DH dug ssafras roots and I made tea for tomorrow.

It's been forever since I've had real homemade ssafras tea or fermented root beer. You all are living the dream.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm just a real nice person.......with the gift of gab. I'm friendly like a big wet dog with muddy feet, give me a minute and we'll be best friends, 2-3 minutes and we'll be kin.

So that's how you do it! MY DH is like that... His mama is like that too - they've never met a stranger. These folks went to Europe year after year and met folks that ended up lifelong friends. They vacationed together in different places and stayed at each others homes for weeks at a time.

Me - I gotta have a beer or three before I can do all that bonding, lol!

 

[baymule]

It's been forever since I've had real homemade ssafras tea or fermented root beer. You all are living the dream.

Doesn't sassafras grow there?

 

[CrealCritter]

Doesn't sassafras grow there?

I does yes but I've yet to find any

 

[baymule]

The sassafras is just starting to leaf out here. We have a patch of it, but I'd rather dig it from the neighbor's property and save ours. LOL But today we dug it in the new pig pen.

 

[baymule]

WE ARE DONE!! I don’t know who is the happiest, us or the pigs!

An airial view(I was standing on a ladder).

Piper and Poodle checking things out.

This is how we feed pigs!

They’re getting the hang of it.

What’s in here?

I poked a stick through the wire and depressed the hog nipple. They got excited and plowed up the mud. I poked it a few more times and they finally bit the nipple. In moments they both bit down on the nipple and sucked up a drink. We decided to use a blue barrel instead of the tote.

We are tired, but very satisfied with our hard work. Piper and Poodle like it too!