PIGS
Hooray! The pigs arrived this weekend. As always, it was a comedy of errors getting them situated. We had run out of time and did not have an opportunity to have the electric fence completely wired. We had the (so we thought) brilliant idea of securing the area with cattle panels. All went well for about 30 seconds. At that point in time, two of the piglets had escaped through the panels. The dogs thought this was great fun and did their best to try to herd them for us. It only took us about 20 minutes, but we were able to get them back into their crate. After some time, we got portable electric fencing installed, though I thought the shock was a bit on the weak side. Later that evening, we were able to see where it was arcing from the wire to one of the cattle panels. We fixed that problem and the resulting shock I got reassured me that there is now no problem whatsoever with the fence!
The piglets (or as our 5-year-old refers to them, "oinklets") are doing very well. Here are some photos of them on their first day at the farm.
Samantha, Chelsea, Seth, and the tail of "Hog"
The oinklets chow down
Our buddy "Hog" makes himself at home in the feed trough
The oinklets explore their new house
A bigger view of their new house.
And now, some photos of where they are going to be turning the sod and helping us create two new gardens. It is absolutely amazing what kind of digging these little creatures can do with their noses! We're looking forward to posting some photos after they've been in there for a week or two.
The area prior to digging post holes - note that these were taken several weeks prior to the piglets arrival - this area is now very green with grass.
Post Holes are dug and cedar trees from the farm are cut to size for use as posts.
