This Little Piggy

    We finally have our Large Black Hogs!  Prudence (our future sow), Noble Sam (our future Boar), and Lefty (a barrow we plan to eat...maybe...if we don't get too attached to him!  He loves to have his belly rubbed.  (Click on 'The Pigs' tab for pictures.)

We picked them up in Missouri, along with 4 Dominique chickens, and drove them home in the back of our SUV so they wouldn't be exposed to the sun and wind.  Needless to say, we drove most of the way home with the windows rolled down!  I was expecting the drive to be pretty noisy, but is turned out to be surprisingly quiet.

They are settling in nicely in our smaller paddock where they can be trained to the hot wire.  They have already discovered the wire and don't like it at all!  They do, however, love their soaking tub.  It's comical to watch them all try to get in it at the same time.  Lefty really likes the tub and tends to "hog" it when he's in it. 

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On another note, we've gone from an extremely wet spring to an extremely dry early summer and back to the wet again here in late summer.  Our grass is finally green and growing again after the scorching heat and drought we experienced in June. Today feels like a rainy fall day and we and our cows are really enjoying it!

Our Devon calves are growing quickly and looking good.  We have more to come in October and December and are very excited about the genetic lines we're working with.   I'll take some pictures as soon as the rain passes and get them posted ASAP.

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