Well, Figured I had better give a Miss Piggy update.. So we are still waiting and at this point, she is just getting bigger in both size and teat development, as we don’t know when we was breed, we are really in the dark to a point on just how far along she is going and I have given up trying to read her body, I swear that she has had contactions and yet she is so calm about it that clearly its fake or hicks or something.

The important thing is that she is eating well, drinking well, comfortable and being very clean, she has picked a bathroom corner in her nice large pen, which makes cleanup very swift, and thankfully at least for now, she has no issues at all with us getting into the pen to do her required cleaning, the fact that she keeps her main bedding clean is just so helpful, now if I could just teach Girl to not poo in or by her bedding area..

Angelo took a bit to get used to being a lone boy, he was raised in a good size herd, the pigs can still hear each other and if in just the right spot, see each other a bit, but he has come into his own in terms of really liking having his feed etc all to himself, and he is learning to like fall windfall apples.

As for my little Miss Rooten Tooten, well yesterday I went over to help catch my little one and I was truly impressed at how sweet tempered the mother is, she is a good girl, both motherly but also trusting that we were not really hurting her little ones, we caught the one I was sure was a female, wrong, turns out it was a male.. so looked at the other two and both males as well, none of which have been altered, and I really want a female.. so that left the two that were out in the bigger pasture and they where not about to even consider coming in for the feed in the smaller pen (which was still good size)and slowly getting pushed into a corner to get sexed, so for now I have left empty handed, the litter just became available as they just turned eight weeks, four out of five are already spoken for, they swear that there is a female in there so she must be one of the other two, which makes her a little wilder..

I am not to worried about it, I can move her into a pen nice and close to the house for evening or night time extra training, with her out in the garden pen for the day, if she is really wild, I might just move her into a pen in the house for a week or so to gentle her right down and start her clicker training, I need a very relaxed and basic trained pig if I want her to work as my garden plow, and she had handling as a young baby pig for the first week or two of her life by the kids but since has been allowed to be a little pasture/woods baby.