The good news.....the four remaining babies are doing GREAT!!! We have one female, LuLu, and three males, Owen, Bumpy, and Elmer.
Here's a pic of Owen enjoying a little belly rub.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Oh the Cuteness.....
Well good news and bad news... first the bad.....we lost three baby pigs in the two days after they were born. Two were definitely smaller than the others. Ethel, the mom, accidentally laid on the third one. When the first baby started getting weak I brought it to the house, kept it in a box with a heater on it, and fed it goats milk. It ate well but was just too weak to make it. We buried all three under a nice, big oak tree.
The good news.....the four remaining babies are doing GREAT!!! We have one female, LuLu, and three males, Owen, Bumpy, and Elmer.
Here's a pic of Owen enjoying a little belly rub.
The good news.....the four remaining babies are doing GREAT!!! We have one female, LuLu, and three males, Owen, Bumpy, and Elmer.
Here's a pic of Owen enjoying a little belly rub.
Friday, September 25, 2015
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: Antiques and a Donkey
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: Antiques and a Donkey: Wasn't sure if I should call this Antiques and a Donkey.....or An Antique Donkey. Either way, I love the photo. This is Jenny Lou, our 2...
Antiques and a Donkey
Wasn't sure if I should call this Antiques and a Donkey.....or An Antique Donkey. Either way, I love the photo. This is Jenny Lou, our 22 year old donkey. She pretty well runs the show out at the farm.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Baby Pigs!!
Well here's a story for you.....back in December, well, let me start at the very beginning....
About 12 years ago, my dad gave our youngest daughter a baby pot-bellied pig. Her name was Twinkles. She was solid black, spoiled, temperamental, and sweet. She was not a house pig. She had a winter pen in the hay barn and a summer pen in the shade. She liked to eat tomatoes. And she was very loved. She got sick about two years ago and we discovered that she had a cancerous tumor that was growing rapidly. She passed away peacefully in her sleep one morning and my husband and I buried her at the farm.
We talked about getting our daughter another pig, but she was off at college and not home much and we decided against it.
Well.....back in December, a pair of mini pot-bellied pigs just showed up at our house. A male and a female. They weren't quite full grown. We still, to this day, have no idea where they came from. We put pictures on Facebook, talked to the neighbors, etc.... and nobody claimed them.
So we kept them. We named them Fred and Ethel. Fred has never appeared very mature in the male region of his anatomy and we thought that he had been neutered. Nope. And Ethel had been putting on some weight recently and we thought that she was just getting fat. Wrong again. Yesterday morning when I went to the pig pen to feed them I found seven little baby piggies!! Of course this is a time when my husband is out of town for work (this type of thing always happens when he's gone). I made a make-shift pen to separate Fred from Ethel and the babies and attempted to barricade any spots that were big enough for a tiny little baby to get out. So far, so good. They're all alive and well this morning and in the pen.
Oh also.....late last night I started reading online about the care of newborn mini pot-bellied pigs and discovered they needed heat lamps even though it was in the 70s here. So, at 1:00 a.m. in my nightgown I was putting heat lamps on the babies. This should be interesting......
About 12 years ago, my dad gave our youngest daughter a baby pot-bellied pig. Her name was Twinkles. She was solid black, spoiled, temperamental, and sweet. She was not a house pig. She had a winter pen in the hay barn and a summer pen in the shade. She liked to eat tomatoes. And she was very loved. She got sick about two years ago and we discovered that she had a cancerous tumor that was growing rapidly. She passed away peacefully in her sleep one morning and my husband and I buried her at the farm.
We talked about getting our daughter another pig, but she was off at college and not home much and we decided against it.
Well.....back in December, a pair of mini pot-bellied pigs just showed up at our house. A male and a female. They weren't quite full grown. We still, to this day, have no idea where they came from. We put pictures on Facebook, talked to the neighbors, etc.... and nobody claimed them.
So we kept them. We named them Fred and Ethel. Fred has never appeared very mature in the male region of his anatomy and we thought that he had been neutered. Nope. And Ethel had been putting on some weight recently and we thought that she was just getting fat. Wrong again. Yesterday morning when I went to the pig pen to feed them I found seven little baby piggies!! Of course this is a time when my husband is out of town for work (this type of thing always happens when he's gone). I made a make-shift pen to separate Fred from Ethel and the babies and attempted to barricade any spots that were big enough for a tiny little baby to get out. So far, so good. They're all alive and well this morning and in the pen.
Oh also.....late last night I started reading online about the care of newborn mini pot-bellied pigs and discovered they needed heat lamps even though it was in the 70s here. So, at 1:00 a.m. in my nightgown I was putting heat lamps on the babies. This should be interesting......
Sunday, September 13, 2015
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: My New Best Friend :)
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: My New Best Friend :): I am LOVING this Boxed site! Everything arrives quickly, well packaged, and right to my front door! It saves me time, money, gas, and the ha...
My New Best Friend :)
I am LOVING this Boxed site! Everything arrives quickly, well packaged, and right to my front door! It saves me time, money, gas, and the hassle of going to the store. And I DO NOT like to go to the store. Crowded aisles, carts that go kathwump, kathwump (my word for the noisy cart I ALWAYS manage to get), long checkout lines.....basically just a nightmare.....and this is in the middle of a weekday! No way, no how, will I go on the weekend! Boxed is my new best friend!
https://www.boxed.com/
https://www.boxed.com/
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thank the Lord for a Forgiving Hubby!
So today, while my husband is out of town for work, I had to take his big Dodge dually truck to the shop. Now, mind you, I do drive this truck quite often.....at the farm. Parking it in a VERYYYY TIGHT parking lot is a completely different story. A story that ends with a HUGE dented fender and torn off trim :(
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: One of My Favorite Online Stores!
A Day in the Life of a Farm Wife: One of My Favorite Online Stores!: https://www.chefscatalog.com/ I LOVE this website!! Such a great selection of kitchen items at GREAT PRICES!
One of My Favorite Online Stores!
https://www.chefscatalog.com/
I LOVE this website!! Such a great selection of kitchen items at GREAT PRICES!
I LOVE this website!! Such a great selection of kitchen items at GREAT PRICES!
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