I have been so busy with working on the farm that I haven't had time to write many blogposts. This post is about how I totally disregarded my brother's advice re pigs. LOL! We shall see if it works out.
The turkeys are the most fun and curious of creatures. They like to roost out and about. They go and visit all the other creatures on the farm. They follow us around and are easy to herd. So much easier than chickens!
The turkeys spend time running around the fields and eating bugs and plants. The field is getting so high that now we can't really see them if they move away from the edge of the field.
The turkeys don't go back to their coop at night. They usually roost on the swing set until someone comes out and herds them to bed. They really know where to go and hop off and run to the coop. There they fly to the roosting poles and spend the night. The turkeys are given free range over the farm. They only occasionally find their way to the neighbors or into my garden.
We have built a mobile pig pen. We used hog panels and wood. We repurposed the awning from our old house and used it as the shade and shelter for the pig pen. We wrapped a tarp across the back to make it protected.
There is barb wire around the top to discourage any wandering coyotes to move along. We move the pen every day and will have to make it twice a day when the pigs get larger.
The turkeys cam out to inspect the setting up of the pig pen. It is real handy now, as the turkeys come out every morning after we move the pen and clean up any feed the pigs have spilt. Team work that results in hardly any wasted feed!
The pigs eat the salad before they hit the feed. They really seem to enjoy the fresh greens every day. We are thinking that moving the sty daily will prevent the pigs from trying to escape.
The pigs do eat their feed though.
Our pigs do stay pretty clean as they are on clean dirt every day. Doesn't this guy look like Babe? So cute.
We have five pigs. A couple are for us, the rest will be sold. The sty moves through the fields so that they are not close to the house so that smell is not an issue. The pigs have become T-Bob's project. He is responsible to move the sty and make sure they have food and water.
Ir's not just the critters that are happy on the farm. Elizabeth and a friend were leaping and dancing.
They also wandered across the fields.
The sunsets are beautiful and almost every day we stop and watch the sun go down. Life is good!!
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