Gaining

The steers are really gaining weight

and boy, do they look good!

Most of them are really friendly.

Some of them even enjoy a good back or face scratching.

We are thankful for a full pond again.

This means we won't have to run water to them through the winter.

The pigs are getting really big too.

They keep us entertained with mud wallowing and running in circles.

All of the sides of pork have been reserved

but we still have 8 sides of beef left.

Contact us if you are interested!

The piglets arrive

6 crossbreed pigs

all brothers

5 weeks old

They are pretty little

& pretty cute!



J2 shows one piglet where the water is.

They will have to grow a bit before they can eat out of the big feeder and drink out of the new waterer.

They will grow though.

Boy, will they grow.

Jonah just loves pigs.

We're glad someone on this farm does

because we all love pork!



Preparing for Piglets

With fall coming on, it's almost time to get piglets.  Jonah can't wait.  Our country vet raises show pigs and has promised him any that don't make the grade.  But since we don't know when he will call and say "come get 'em" we needed to be ready.

Jonah raised 3 pigs last year and found that feeding time

 would be much easier with proper equipment:

1. a new double feeder that will hold 100 pounds of feed

The pigs push the flaps up to eat.  That way the food stays clean and dry.

2. an automatic waterer so they won't tip it over and wallow in the mud

3.  a new gate to match the others on the farm.

Notice we added 3 boards at the bottom to create a barrier for them when opening the gate.

4. Mom added a fresh coat of white paint to the fence and pig house.  We don't know why.  They are just going to get it dirty.  I mean, everyone knows, a happy pig is a dirty pig!



Three Little Pigs

Jonah liked the cattle but really thought he would like to raise pigs.  So he bought three little ones which he appropriately named Bacon, Sausage, and Pepperoni. (It's a good thing to name them what they will be because it reminds you everyday what they are for.)

They were really fun when they were little.  Jonah put together a hay bale house and pen until a permanent shelter and fence could be built. He spent lots of time with those little pigs.


And they grew...a lot!

Pigs like two things ~ food & dirt!

In the end, they went with the steer to the butcher.  We all thought Jonah would be sad but he knew what the pigs were for and was good with that.  We kept two of them for the freezer and he sold the other as pork.  Pig raising was something he wanted to do again, for sure.