So we started off our search for piglets by going to a livestock auction, which produced nothing. Then I went to the craiglist ads. After searching and searching, emailing this one and that one, we finally found a hog farmer that was about 30 minutes away. So this past Sunday we took a drive.
The daddy is a red waddle, and the moms are berkshire/hampshire mixes... the end results were some nice colorful and very healthy babies. He had three litters and we got to have our pick of the last litter. So we put a deposit down on 3 Sows. They will be fully weaned and available for pickup at the end of this month.
Honestly we can't wait. This is a new adventure for us, and if we do well I think we are going to buy our own boar and sow and do some breeding. The market around here for sows is insane.
And we already have them named: Breakfast, Lunch and Supper....LOL
The farmer had a menagerie of everything, but his real passion besides the pigs were his birds, all kinds of quails, peacocks, chickens and one "Guard Turkey" appropriately named Big Black. This darn bird followed us everywhere.
He also has two ponds with a full flock of Muskogee ducks that are actually his wife's doing. This guys farm was absolutely beautiful, we can't wait to go back to pick up the piglets....
In other news, our warm weather is turning and we are do some freak cold air with even a chance for snow on Sunday. Yes snow in March here...not actually unheard of but, with this warm winter we thought it would never happen.. But, it is just a chance and the weather forecasters always screw these things up so we will see what happens. Either way, the temps are supposed to drop. First its all been unseasonably warm, now the lows are going to go below normal... So now I wonder if the trend is going to be cooler then normal temps for spring and summer...well it really wouldn't surprise me. The weather has just been plain wonky everywhere!...
-JUGM
