Yesterday we picked up 7 magnificent piggies. Four more will be to provide milk-fed pork to the world, and a couple will go into local freezers (one for Natasha, who helps me out with milk supplements when Ruby's output is insufficient, one for us) and the last piggy? Well, it won't have to run anywhere, but I haven't decided yet if we will sell it or keep it.
This batch is calm, happy, smart and extremely well matched. In a few hours the pigs settled down, figured out feeder and waterer and began excavating. When Harold and I unloaded them (he handed them out of the trailer to me to put in the pen) none of them squealed or were all that upset at being handled. I think they will tame down real nice and be a nice bunch of pigs.
The dogs were very excited to see them, in fact a little too excited. This morning the dogs were still going to visit the pigs, but they were not barking at them, just trying to get a good sniff of them, so soon they will get along just fine. It is nice to have pigs again.
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