I love my Ms Piggie. She oinks when she sees me comes santering up to the fence. She barks if I ignore her. She’ll follow me around the pasture like a dog.
We’ve raised plenty of pigs the last 5 years, but only from weaner to butcher size. Ms Piggie was the first that we kept to breed. She is a purebred Berkshire. She was mated to another Berkshire.
[B]This was from Saturday night.[/B]
[B]And what we saw when we went into the barn Sunday morning:[/B]
reminds me of my college days - for one course we all had to deliver a gilt; of course the one I was assigned went overdue - and they finally induced labour. 13 little piggies delivered in something like 8 minutes. and half of them needed mouth to snout!
Yes, butcher size. We raise all our own meat; pork, beef, chicken, duck, goose, turkey, guinea and rabbit. We also raise the majority of our vegetables and fruits. We have a milk cow, egg laying flock and honey bee hives.
Our animals are loved and cared for their entire lives. Since I am an omnivore, I rather feed my family food that we’ve grown ourselves instead of relying on commercial, corporate ag facilities where who knows what goes into their feed and what kind of life the animals had.
soooooooooo cute