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Ethel’s Farrowing: The Final Chapter of the Piglet Saga
On September 23, 2023 by MaryThe last of our three sows, Ethel, had her piglets this week. And thank goodness for that, because the past few weeks have been tiring and disappointing. In my last post, I wrote about Dottie and her two little piglets. Sadly, neither piglet made it through their first week. Ethel’s Piglets Good ol’ Ethel went
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Dottie’s Farrowing: New Girls On the Block
On September 17, 2023 by MaryIn the last piggy post, I wrote about our pig Karen’s farrowing. Unfortunately, she didn’t deliver any live piglets, but since then she’s been doing just fine. Well, our pig Dottie was next in line, and she finally had her piglets this weekend. Story Time She went into labor just as Calvin had to leave
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A Brand New Homesteading Adventure Begins
On September 10, 2023 by MaryBecause we don’t have enough going on with 4 kids, homeschooling, 31 chickens, 2 feeder pigs, 4 breeder pigs, and hopefully piglets any day now… we added another endeavor to our homestead. A couple days ago we brought home… meat chickens! A lot of meat chickens. We’ve had laying hens for a while, but now
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Karen’s Farrowing: The Night I Became a Real Farm Girl
On September 5, 2023 by MaryY’all… I think I can finally call myself a farm girl. Story time!! Happy Labor Day Last night was something else. Before bed, my oldest son and I went down to the barn together to do the evening farm chores. While feeding the pigs, I noticed that Karen (one of our pregnant piggies, pictured below
