NH Homesteader's journal

[frustratedearthmother]

That's a lot of busy-ness to tend to. I feel your pain. After this round of kidding - if Cameo decides to ever drop her kids - I may need to make some revisions too.

Charlotte needs to get her fat butt into gear and make some babies! Is she showing any signs of teat/udder development? I never know what to call a pig's mammary glands, lol. First thing I notice on my girls will be that the teats just look a little more prominent/longer. I really hope Charlotte gets with it! I'd rather see her picture with babies instead of seeing her picture on a dinner plate!

 

[NH Homesteader]

I must be honest, DH has been doing chores and I haven't walked down to the pig pen for a few days lol. It's warmer today so I'll make my rounds again. I just check on my animals in the barn and let him deal with his when it's too cold/snowy! So I have no idea other than she looks round, I can see that much from the house!!

I like her but really, if she can't reliably produce babies... I only want one sow anyway so that makes her miss the cut in my book. We'll see what DH says about it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Agree - if she doesn't make babies she needs to make bacon, lol.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Our friend gave us some bacon from one of his pigs, I just fried some up for corn chowder. It's good... except he has it cut SO thick it's ridiculous! I like thin crispy bacon. Ugh!

I need to find new recipes . Trying to eat healthier and I'm sick of eating the same things all the time. It's boring!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It's so easy to get stuck in a food rut. I have a tendency to go back to the tried and true when I'm trying to figure out what to cook. It IS boring, lol. But, I've been branching out into more low-carb stuff lately.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I'm craving vegetables. Must be the lack of sunlight!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Got some recipes and a grocery list started for some new stuff!

I need smoothie recipes... I think there's a thread on that somewhere... hmm.

Got Pattys CDT. Tried to bolus her but she spit it out repeatedly. Couldn't move her because DH has a disaster in the kidding stall. So tomorrow we'll move her.

 

[tortoise]

Got some recipes and a grocery list started for some new stuff!

What's on your menu and shopping list?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Good on getting the CDT done!

We definitely want to know any ideas for new recipes, lol. I branch occasionally and then always kind of fall back to the tried and true... boring...

p.s. Typed this up last night and must've gotten distracted because I didn't post it...geeze.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Yeah, it's all stuff you guys can't eat, we're grain eaters lol!