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Pot Belly Pig Giving Birth

My latest video of my pot belly pig giving birth!

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Fox Attack

I haven't wrote in quite awhile, so I need to update on everything that's been happening. We recently had a fox kill about half our chicken flock. This was a brazen fox that we actually caught walking up our driveway in broad daylight attacking one of our chickens. After that we decided to buy a livestock guardian dog. We got an Anatolian Shepard and Great Pyrenees mixed puppy.

We also started working on another chicken cage with a higher roost. The chickens all stay around the house now and rarely go back to their old coop. They have been roosting on the fence beside the pig shed. I'll post more pictures later! Take care all!

Baby Was Pregnant

I posted on here awhile back that I thought my pig might be pregnant, but then I found out the neighbor had been throwing her food. So, I thought maybe she gained weight from that. Turns out she was pregnant! Yesterday evening, she wouldn't come out of her stall at dinner time. I knew something was up because Baby don't miss no meals. I went and checked on her, and it was pretty obvious she was in labor.

We didn't have pig rails set up for the babies yet, so my husband took some measurements and we were hoping to get them put in before she had any babies. While my husband went to gather materials, I stayed in the stall with Baby. Before my husband could get back, she popped out her first baby with me in there with her.

So, I told my husband not to disturb her, and we decided just to stay with her and keep a check that she didn't sit on any of the babies. The first 4 babies went pretty fast. The last one took about an hour. She ended up having 5 babies.

We put a light up in the stall, and I told my husband that if she gets up to go eat and drink, then I was going to try and bring them all in the house since we never got the pig rails up. Well, she got up, and I was able to bring them all in the house so I can keep an eye on them. So far, she has been an excellent mother! She takes special care not to sit on them. She goes out to potty, then comes back in with them. I got a litterbox for the babies, and I'm trying to put them in it as I catch them trying to potty. I used toilet tissue to clean up their pee, then put the tissue in the box so they could smell it. So far, they are doing good for only being a day old....LoL

Here they are just laying around suckling after I got them all in the house. So stinking cute! Pigs are born with their eyes open and with teeth!

Baby has mud on her hooves, but there was no way I wanted to disturb her after just having babies. We'll get her good and cleaned up once she recoups some!

Rooster

I posted a while back that one of our hens hatched some chicks, and two of them happened to be roosters. I don't care for roosters. It seems they always turn hateful. But, we decided to keep these two for now, and if they turn hateful, they are going to be chicken soup! So far, they seem to be occupied with each other more than attacking us. I think one of the major differences between these roosters and past roosters is that these were not hand-raised. Our hen raised the chicks on her own until one day she left them. Past roosters were usually bought from Tractor Supply and had been hatched through an incubator, so we had to feed them, keep them warm, and handle them to clean cages. You'd think being handled would make them nicer, but it seems, it may make you competition. If my theory is right, which I'm not saying it is, then roosters raised by their mother and not humans are better and less likely to attack you. So far, that is my experience. Here is a video of one of the roosters trying to peck around in the dirt that my husband was digging up to prepare to plant some veggies.

Sunbathing

Recently, we built a new fence for the pigs so they'd have more room to roam. It was a rather warm day yesterday, almost 60F, so the pigs got to do some sunbathing.

This past weekend, our neighbor came over, who happens to be a preacher, and we often load him up with eggs! He says, "I hope you don't mind, I've been throwing scraps to your pigs." What's so funny about this is that I just told my husband that I thought Baby might be pregnant because she has gained so much weight....LoL For the last two weeks, I was reading on how to prepare for piglets....LoL I have my pigs on a very strict diet. I feed them mini-pig food twice a day, sometimes they get snacks or leftovers, but I want them to forage. I don't mind that he feeds them, but I do need to watch her weight! He often has kids over there and they love to come look at the pigs. Here is a video of Lil' Pig sunbathing and Baby shaking her big, ol' booty....LoL

Fuzzy Got Groomed

Yesterday, we groomed Fuzzy. Grooming English Angora rabbits takes some time because they have so much fur!

Taking a break in this picture! You can see some of the fur in this picture, but way more than this was removed!

Looking cute!

The infamous grumpy face!

Clucky is a Proud American

Proud American 

New Laying Boxes

 

New Laying Boxes

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

From Tony and Sabrina

My Flock

Baby pig isn't a baby no more, but she is still fairly small. 

And he is Lil' Pig

Lil' Pig Rooting Around

Tails and Bubba

One of the chicks I posted about a while back. It's a rooster now...LoL We ended up with 3 roosters from the hatched eggs. We kept two of them. So far, they are not showing any aggression towards humans, but if they do, they're going in the pot!

Here is crazy Clucky.

Pigs are Friendly Creatures

My pigs seem to get along with everybody. Cats, dogs, chickens, and even rabbits. Here is a picture of my French Angora rabbit enjoying a meal with the pigs.

Baby with my puppy Bubba.

Baby Pig Can Sit

I watched all kinds of YouTube videos showing people easily teaching a pig to sit. So, I went into this thinking it would be as easy as training a puppy. Wrong. From my experience, it depends on the pig. Lil' Pig will not sit for me, and he is still a smart pig. He is very loving and curious. Now Baby pig, it was so easy to teach her to sit. She loves food more than Lil' Pig I should mention. All it took was a Fruit Loop and some hand motions and she has it memorized. Lil' Pig has no interest in sitting. At all. I should also mention that Lil' Pig is a male Juliana and Baby pig is a female Vietnamese Pot-Belly. Too me, the female is way easier to train. Anyway, here is the video I made!

I'm back

It has been awhile since my last post, but I plan on uploading some pictures here soon.

Our Hen is Such a Good Mommy

One of the hens we got from Tractor Supply turned out to be an excellent mother. After she finished sitting and her and the babies jumped out of the nesting box, we moved them to a smaller box away from the other hens. And, we've been watching them grow and mimic their mommy. God's animals are amazing to watch!

The hen calls the chicks when it is time to eat. She lets them eat before she does. And, if something is too big, she breaks it up for them.

She is digging in the dirt, and they mimic her and dig their bottoms in too!

Here they are following mommy!

This cutie just needed to rest!

Building a New House For Pigs

 We started building a bigger house for the pigs today. I can't wait until it's finished. 

We Had 6 Chicks

Right after our White Leghorn hen went broody and hatched one single chick, one of the Tractor Supply hens went broody and hatched 6 chicks. They are so cute! One came out a grey color which I've never seen before so I'm excited to see what her color will turn out to be as an adult. It looks like she hatched some of the Barred Rock's eggs because we have 3 black chicks, 1 greyish colored, and 2 yellow.

One of the Barred Rock hens is acting like she might go broody next. Hopefully, one of the babies will be a rooster because we ended up putting mean rooster in the frying pan. He got so mean that we couldn't get eggs without him trying to attack. I made a new rule after that rooster experience.....any rooster that relentlessly tries to attack is going straight in the frying pan. I'm wanting to get a Buff Orpington rooster and see if they are better.

Here is the babies. Two of the black chicks were out with momma hen when I took this pix.

Lil' Pig is 5 Months

We decided to break out the scales and weigh Lil' Pig. He weighs 42 lbs! You can see Baby Pig's head for a comparison of sorts in the picture above. He turned 23 weeks yesterday...so just over 5 months. I seen other pictures and their Juliana pigs seem to be smaller at this age. But I've also seen pictures of Juliana pigs that look exactly like mine.  Honestly, it wouldn't matter to me if he got 300 lbs. as long as he remains the kind, gentle pig that he is. He is awesome!

This picture was taking shortly after bring Baby Pig home. Her skin was super dry. It's cleared up now.

Baby Pig is doing well too. We are going to name her Baby because we've called her Baby Pig so much that she thinks that's her name anyway....LoL Baby Pig is a female pot-belly, and I plan on her getting big because I saw her parents. I just weaned her off milk. She is more feisty than Lil' Pig was. She may be tiny, but she won't take crap from Lil' Pig.....like him stealing her food....LoL

Peppa's Dry Skin

When I first got Peppa, she was caked in mud and had severely dry skin. At first, I thought it might be mange. It's not scabby and is slowly flaking off, so from what I read is normal for pigs at 1-2 weeks. I gave her a bath as soon as I got her home and started applying baby lotion. Today, I gave her another bath and applied olive oil. Her skin is looking better and better. I've had her for 4 days so far and her skin is looking better and better.