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FWIW, I've slipped and fallen in the mud 3 more times since I posted that story. I'm struggling still to find the humor in that.

I don't mind the rain, really! We needed it so badly after all that heat last week. Turned the pig pen into one massive mud waller, as expected. No matter, it's the nature of raising my piggies. Come feeding time, I know it's going to be a mess, carrying 30# buckets of feed to four feed troughs...

Wow!!! Thank you! I am so very proud of them. :celebrate

It all depends on the season. Cattle, chickens, dogs & cats, occasionally feeder pigs. Right now, with the heat wave, I'm spending quite a lot of time with the feeder pigs (11 of them, almost ready for slaughter) OMG the pigs and their mud!!! I was not set up for 11 of them when hubby brought...

Is it dinnertime yet? Feeder pigs

Missy and Junior, our bottle calves

I almost forgot this one! My favorite photo. My two little bottle calves, Junior (from Blackie, above) and Missy, a rescue calf.

Hello everyone! After posting a thread about my pigs and worming, it's past time to introduce myself. My husband and I have a small farm (12 acres at home, 14 more a mile away) just outside of Kansas City, Missouri where we raise some livestock to fill our freezers and some for family and...

Noticed possible side effect of the ivermectin pour-on tonight - pigs are very thirsty. VERY. Hungry, too!

And done! I used a curry comb to brush the dried mud from their backs before dosing - OMG they loved that so much! So well behaved and stood stock still for me. Some came back for more brushing. I really think I would have been able to inject them anyway with a helper. Regardless, the window is...

I have no chute, yet. I will be building one so we can safely and calmly load them into a trailer. Lots of wood pallets and scrap lumber lying around..... My biggest fear of trying to inject them myself was the risk of broken needles. Some of those videos make it look easy, but these are very...

He has horns! A beautiful matched set.

Thank you for the reply! I have spent the last several hours searching for videos on how to do subcutaneous injections on pigs this size - and I was NOT looking forward to doing this tomorrow by myself. Our local feed store doesn't carry the treatment for feed, and they're out of paste. So I...

You are lucky! My wether, Camo, when ye was a youngster, could climb. He climbed chain link fences, trees, sheds, anything under 6' tall. Mostly he stayed near the pen anyway, because the other goats couldn't get out and he didn't want to be far from them. LOL But every evening, he'd be waiting...

Forewarned if you get a billy (buck): They pee on their faces, and generally STINK to high heaven, especially if there are nannies or does nearby. They require strong fencing.

My first time here, of course with a problem. We have 11 grower pigs, 22 weeks old, about 150-200 lbs each (8 hampshires, 1 yorkshire, 2 durocs). Going to slaughterhouse in August. First time raising pigs, hubby went to auction for 2-3 piglets, and accidentally bought a whole lot at 8 weeks...