The journey into the abyss of no return

[Mini Horses]

If you loose him, you could be 50+ little cute piggies early summer . Ready for that?

 

[SageHill]

Tempted to just cut the fence and let him go have fun with the gilts. Just tell the wife, oops guess he got through.

Hey that’s my excuse!

 

[SageHill]

I got one gilt that hasn’t grown an inch in the year I had her, runt? I’m afraid for that one to be mated. Guess I should just kill that one?

Well, you did call them bacon bits when you got them. Guess she took it literally
Bacon bits.

 

[Ridgetop]

Now that you have a trailer, you can make a trip with those 50 piggies to the auction. Taking that many would pay the gas!

 

[farmerjan]

Yes, kill the one/ones that have not performed...
Probably should have gotten the boar in there a month ago... so pigs are grown more by the time it gets cold around there in the fall so you can get them sold... Should get them on the ground, up there, I would think by the middle of May ..... Get them bred now , because you are looking at them only being 4 months by the time you start getting cold in Nov.... and you know how much they eat when it is cold trying to grow and keep up their body heat since they don't get a "winter coat" like cows, horses, sheep, etc.....

 

[farmerjan]

When you say piglets hitting the market... how big are they??? If they are 8-12 weeks old, 20-40 lbs... then that is about right for here also... people want them in early spring, to get them grown out to kill in late fall... Thanksgiving is "traditional" for hog killing... into Dec... so they have 6-8 months to hit the 250 +/- pound size... and not feed growing hogs through the winter... If they are 50-100 lbs then they are farrowing in Oct/Nov.. and feeding lactating sows through that cold...
We do not get the extreme cold or the extended periods of cold like you do... I would not want to be farrowing sows in the winter there... but the biggest demand for piglets to feed out is in Mar/early Apr.... like you...

 

[farmerjan]

Yeah, good luck to them... You need a break.... don't know how much you need the income.... let them see what they can come up with... it will be interesting...

 

[SageHill]

They are going to need more than a booster seat to sit in the big boys chair since I set the bar so high. Need one year experience at minimum, for what they list that would take "decades" to learn and have experience. Oh well now I can go home finally and work on the homestead again. They don't like my rates that increased up $4 an hour, yep an extra $160 a week broke them, shallow
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They are ……….. Wacky.

 

[Baymule]

Does that place have a competitor that you could go to work for?

 

[fuzzi]

Will say that, now I will be home more, weather is warming up and drying out the neighbors will be doing more of what they do best. So they do have my full attention, now they are going to have more of my time and more of my time is not a good thing for them.
Ducks and geese now run when they see us as I seen today, wife has been seeing it, telling me about and thought it was just cold outside as she helps feed them in the morning while I feed the pigs. Nope went for a walk right past them this afternoon in mid 50's and soon as they seen us they all ran inside. Been warm for a week or more and not one egg.

Why are they running now? Has someone been harassing them?