pig in a truck

 

one of the berkshire/tamworth piglet runts didn’t make it through last night. He was acting a little weak the last few days, and was dead in their hay nest this morning. in an effort to isolate our fragile newborns from the sick piglet who has been hiding in their nest (see yesterday), we plucked him out of general population, and inserted him into our sow pen. hopefully the individual attention from his mother will help him recover. it’s clear that he’s feeling sick, because no healthy piglet would have been so easily carried and held. he had nothing in him.

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Pig etiquette

me, personally?  the way i act around the pigs is always very calm and mild mannered.  if they are going to remember only one single thing about me, i’d prefer it to be that they are comfortable with me in their space.

as the video footage documents, chef francois takes a slightly different “approach” to managing the hogs.  if you listen closely, you can hear him justify this assault with “i gotta get a quick weight on brutus.” 

poor brutus.

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man shovels poo, enjoys his time

i’ve become increasingly more paranoid about what the animals do during a rain storm.  let’s face it, we all stay inside, and they’re all together, conspiring willy nilly about who knows what. 

exhibit, a:  look at those beady eyes:

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our pregnant purebred berkshire berkley

about  a month ago, our berkshire boar—and only boar—bosko, was sent to slaughter, officially closing a chapter in pch history—or so we thought.  after weeks of enjoying bosko’s meat, and reminiscing about the good times, his spirit emerges again—an heir to the throne (shot of conception). 

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