Stone's Throw Farm

Pig heaven apparently is covered in oat and pea plants, which is what’s growing in our piggies’ pasture now. Monday evening Elden came out to the farm and helped me move the pigs from the north side of the driveway to the south edge of the east field. First I set up the wire fences on the north and south sides of their new pen, then moved most of their “furniture,” as I think of it, with the tractor:  sleeping huts, feeders and feeding platform, drinking platform, and gates that form the west edge of their pen. Next I set up the east side of the wire fence, which I move daily to open up fresh pasture for the piggies.

When everything was set, Elden and I walked the pigs over using the welded wire panels that my dad designed to quickly hook together to form a small square pen. This part was a little nerve-wracking, as they could have gotten out of the movable pen pretty easily if they had really wanted to, but all went fine. We would get them all pointed in the right direction and then invariably one would turn around and balk, but hey, they are pigs after all. We took them four at a time and I thought the second four might jump their fence and follow us when we took their friends away, but they stayed put. When we got back for round two, the second group of four pigs were waiting for us at the spot where the first four had left the pen.

The piggies took to their new quarters right away and rooted and munched with what could only be described as enthusiasm. I haven’t gotten any video of them in their new spot yet, so you’ll have to take my word for it. There are a couple videos of them in their old pasture below, so just picture that but with bigger mouthfuls of the green stuff.