Pigs enjoying garden weeds

What do you do when your low on pig food and have hungry pigs? We decided to give them salad for dinner. We pulled a collection of weeds and corn stalks from the garden, tossed them into the pig pen. The pigs loved it... gobbling almost all of the greens as quickly as we could throw them in.

Escaped pigs returned to the pen

The pigs managed to escape today. We noticed the little ones exploring the back yard too late to prevent several torn patches in the grass. No real damage, more of a nuisance really.

After herding them back to the pen I discovered just how they escaped. Apparently one of hte adult pigs had pulled up on the hog panel that we use for the gate, and jammed it against the tpost so that several inches of opening was left under the panel. It was truly wedged tight! The only way to loosen it was to remove the chains and open the gate panel completely.

While I worked on fixing the gate panel, Brenda managed to kepe the adult pigs from running to the yard by using an old 4H pig stick. It was a cool sight to see her managing the large pig while several months pregnant.

Sunday morning surprise

In my closet this morning I hear tiny muffled whimpers. Searching around ... Under a pile of pillows... I find newly arrived baby kittens! 8 of them happily nursing with mommy.

Midnight visitor

So.... Ducks and chickens are unsettled at midnight... Inspection shows a skunk in the chicken coop... And I'm here with a dog overcome with instinct....

So... He's sleeping outside for a few weeks.. I have to shower before returning to bed... And all windows stay closed.

Tomorrow night... I take the shotgun.

Work continues on the webcam

I have been working on the first Little Sprouts webcam for the last couple of weeks. Who knew it would be so difficult!

After working through bandwidth limitations, firmware upgrades, WiFi extenders, placement, etc (including pigs pulling the power cord out of the outlet!) it is finally almost usable.  I have it trained on the front of the pig pen right now due to limitations on housing, power, signal, etc.


Feel free to check it out and provide some feedback.


If you hear pigs but don't see them, it because they are sleeping inside the shelter right under the webcam itself.


the best times to see them active is early mornings and late afternoon or evening. they tend to sleep all night and all day during the heat, only active in the cool morning or cool evenings.


Here is the link:


http://salchfamily.org:38000/