TanksHill
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Gotta love that neighbor!! 
Free's piggie thread...new pics p 19
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noobiechickenlady
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What a great neighbor!!! Free food is awesome 
The more I read these adventures with pigs, the more I'm thinking hubby might be right about getting potbelly pigs instead.
I wonder if shock collars would help. You know, the remote control ones? ~zot~
The more I read these adventures with pigs, the more I'm thinking hubby might be right about getting potbelly pigs instead.
I wonder if shock collars would help. You know, the remote control ones? ~zot~
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freemotion
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I don't think those shock collars would be strong enough for pigs! I haven't been in their pen in a while. But I think I just got a naughty pig. I'm not afraid of the boy, just the girl. She has a more aggressive, fearless personality. I spray her in the face with the hose if she touches my legs through the fence when I am filling the water tubs. I make an "uh-UH!" noise at the same time, and tell her she's a good girl when she backs up. Hmmph. Pig obedience school is next. 
They were not hungry tonight, in fact, there was still corn on the ground from this morning. The pumpkins were gone. I'm gonna like this!
I got a few pounds of raspberries, ate a few pounds while picking, and will try to get back there in the morning! I had some sharp goat cheddar from last spring for my main dish tonight along with a handful of raspberries with every bite....it was heaven, I tell you! Heaven!
They were not hungry tonight, in fact, there was still corn on the ground from this morning. The pumpkins were gone. I'm gonna like this!
I got a few pounds of raspberries, ate a few pounds while picking, and will try to get back there in the morning! I had some sharp goat cheddar from last spring for my main dish tonight along with a handful of raspberries with every bite....it was heaven, I tell you! Heaven!
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freemotion
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Today a few buckets of tomatoes appeared in the pig pasture. Tonight there was still some corn on the ground from this morning. Even the chickens weren't too hungry tonight. I think I'm gonna be liking this arrangement!
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I love it when the neighbors feed my critters, after asking if it is ok to feed them such and such. I make sure to encourage this kind of behavior by giving them our extra produce and eggs on occasion. The goats have formed quite an attachment to one of our neighbors. He has stripped his trees in order to feed the girls
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freemotion
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Today I saw another neighbor "sneaking" over to feed the pigs!!! I love it!
When walking the dogs tonight, I walked them by the part of the pig pasture where people toss stuff, to check it out. I wanted to see why they weren't eating all the tomatoes....after the loss of my tomato garden, I was actually mourning over those 'maters in the pig pasture. Drooling might be a better word.
The pigs ran over joyfully when they saw me approaching the lunch spot, and I stayed a while to watch them while the dogs sniffed around. When they finally came to grips with the thought that I didn't have anything special for them, they started rooting around in the pile of tomatoes, occasionally crunching....crunching??? On yet more acorns! They are starting to drop from the tallest red oak in the neighborhood, in the corner of the pasture. So I collected a couple more pounds on my walk, and dropped them all over the tomatoes on my way back. The pigs gobbled them up.
FREE BACON!!!!!
I still gave them two pounds of fermented corn for dinner, as corn=fat and fat=yum!
Some of today's pictures:
Who looks like the fattest pig here???
Starting to get a little jiggle in his walk, finally!
No jiggle in this gal's walk. Here she is breaking rocks with her teeth!
I love it!When walking the dogs tonight, I walked them by the part of the pig pasture where people toss stuff, to check it out. I wanted to see why they weren't eating all the tomatoes....after the loss of my tomato garden, I was actually mourning over those 'maters in the pig pasture.
Drooling might be a better word.The pigs ran over joyfully when they saw me approaching the lunch spot, and I stayed a while to watch them while the dogs sniffed around. When they finally came to grips with the thought that I didn't have anything special for them, they started rooting around in the pile of tomatoes, occasionally crunching....crunching??? On yet more acorns! They are starting to drop from the tallest red oak in the neighborhood, in the corner of the pasture. So I collected a couple more pounds on my walk, and dropped them all over the tomatoes on my way back. The pigs gobbled them up.
FREE BACON!!!!!
I still gave them two pounds of fermented corn for dinner, as corn=fat and fat=yum!
Some of today's pictures:
Who looks like the fattest pig here???
Starting to get a little jiggle in his walk, finally!
No jiggle in this gal's walk. Here she is breaking rocks with her teeth!
aggieterpkatie
Swiss Army Wife
Hey Free, what was the ground like before you put the pigs in? I see it's pretty turned over. Did the little pigs do that all by themselves?
noobiechickenlady
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Yum yum!!! Looking good free!
ohiofarmgirl
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thems some fine lookin' pigs, Free. fine lookin, indeed
great work!
great work!
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freemotion
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Go back to page 8 of this thread to see the "before" pictures! It is rather sad, really, to see what a summer's drought did to my poor pasture...aggieterpkatie said:
I was just saying to my dad yesterday that I am thinking of planting oats and peas in that pasture as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring. Then I will try to get a cutting for hay before we get the next piglets. If the weather doesn't allow for a cutting, then we will have great pasture for the pigs. Win-win.
