Happy Harvest Blog
Post-Halloween pigs
The pigs are enjoying jack-o-lantern guts, to put it mildly. I've got a few days worth of meal-enhancements from a carving party. I mix the pulp in with their pellets, and nothing budges them from their bowls when they've got pumpkin. I moved their fence around two trees, taking an entire half of it down, and there was not a flicker of interest. No investigating. Whatchu doin'? Nothing. (Good to know).
Mass escape
We've had a lot of rain in a week and a bit. The ground is soft and muddy everywhere, and that makes the electric fence easy to knock over. The pigs escaped after their supper yesterday, an hour before dark. I thought I heard them snorting around in the woods by the house, and I assumed that they would be bedding down and we'd see them in the morning. Boy was I wrong.
Epic pig move
The pigs got another big move yesterday. And they're acting like they did all the work. The space they have with the two strands of fence is vast (not literally, but it seems pretty vast, and it's plenty big enough for them to get totally concealed). I walk around looking for them and it's like Wild Safari. Can you see them? Is that something moving over there? Well, there's a spot where pigs have been.I'm not moving. Maybe my eyelid. One lazy pig. Spot the pig? The other two are in there.
Two tone pigs
The pigs were lying in the mud on one side only, so they (two of them) are browned right down the middle like mimes. They look fully mudded, but they're not. There's the pink side! Yesterday they liberated themselves. I came home, no pigs, and did my usual march all over all the places they could get themselves in trouble with a pail in hand, but I couldn't find any trace of them. It was too late to rouse them.
PIGS FIRST MOVE
(David Attenborough voice) After the new enclosure has been prepared for these lucky piglets, the fence is parted, allowing access to the abundant unspoiled greenery this species thrives upon. But how long will it take them to discover their new freedom? Their attendant retrieves the food bowls they are familiar with and places them in plain view just beyond the fence opening, filling them with fresh food. The young pigs observe these proceedings with interest but from a distance.
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