Dinner on the Grounds

The new kids on the block went for an outing today. Look at all of the fun they had playing after their picnic.

Rosie's Performance Evaluation

Some of you may remember that with Rosie's first litter she only had 4 babies and 2 were stillborn. So this time around John sat down with her and had a long talk. Basically, he told her she was not meeting expectations. Also, if she didn't make some much needed improvement, she would have to take a ride to town. For the entire pregnancy we were not very hopeful that she would have a large litter due to the fact that she wasn't nearly as large as Peaches was with her 10 piglet litter.

So last Thursday, Rosie exceeded expectations in the large litter category! She gave birth to 10 babies and ZERO were stillborn.
What a trooper! She was much more mature and experienced this time around.... calm and gentle. Good girl, Rosie!

Moving Day

John recently re-designed his trailer to accommodate a 600 pound hog. Today we tried it out when moving the rest of the pigs to the back pasture. It worked great! I think John did a great job making the most out of what he had to work with.

Apparently, Rosie likes it too. She likes it so much that she didn't want to mess it up. Really, she backed right up to this bucket and made great use of it! If only it was this easy to potty train my own 3 little piggies.