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A fantastic fourth of July is coming and end. This is the first sunny Saturday that Farmer Steve and I have been home together for a while. Our 2 cria are on the ground, we have 2 left to go. We needed to stay close to home and took full advantage of this day.
Farmer Steve finished the second pig box. The Pig Box was another invention of necessity. As we raised our first pigs last summer we learned a lot about what does and does not work. Don't think that last statement meant that we are done learnin.
Last year our mobile pen was cumbersome and took many hours moving it. Not only was the pen cumbersome, but we had no way to contain the pigs while trying to tear down and move this pen to a new spot for clearing.
Last summer, Steve came up with the Pig Box. Farmer Steve repurposed a number of materials we had stockpiled or saved for such a special project. He utilized the panels we built for our barn foundation to build a box with a roof and a 5 gallon bucket cut and twisted into a funnel. Basically this pig box serves as the shelter and the feeding trough for the pigs. They loved it last year. We would come up to move the box. I would always come up with some tasty morsels. Drop them into the trough of the pig box. Those critters would get in the box, eat and fall fast asleep in a pig pile.
Thinking ahead Farmer Steve built the pig boxes so they can be picked up with the forks of the tractor. This allows us to successfully and safely move the pigs around.
While Farmer Steve was building a new pig box this year (we will have twice as many pigs), I trimmed some hedges, cleaned paddocks, and stacked some wood that we chopped yesterday in the rain.
Seems like I did a lot today, but I took my time, ain't in no hurry, just puttering. I took a lot of breaks to take peeks at the two cria. They have become fast friends.
Happy Independence Day. Give thanks to our soldiers and armed services fighting for independence and seeing what it is like without it, every day.
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