Baymule's Pigs 2018 HEREFORDS!

[baymule]

I found 2 Hereford boars 4 1/2 months old on Craigslist. We went and got them today. I have long admired Hereford Hogs and am delighted to find these! As usual, I have no hog pen ready and won’t be putting them in the pasture we sprigged with Bermuda and Bahia. So I guess we better get busy!

We went to Como to pick them up and made new friends. The couple that sold them has registered Herefords, ours are 3/4 Hereford. What nice people! It was like meeting a sister I didn’t know I had! I called @Devonviolet on our way home. Would have loved to stop and visited with them, but in the pouring rain, we just wanted to get home.

We stopped at Tractor Supply and three people stopped to admire the pigs! They are beautiful.

 

[baymule]

Since I always seem to be doing things bass-ackwards, we have been working on a pig pen. Poor pigs are still in the trailer. I switched them to soured corn. MUCH LESS POOP! And they aren’t starving all the time. But I’ll be real happy to get them in their new home with feeder and water all set up properly.

Yesterday we worked our tails off. We cut up a light pole, chained pieces to front end bucket and carried them to the pig pen.

We dug out the angered post holes to accommodate the big poles. We rolled them and got them in position. DH lifted one end and I used the shovel for the poles to hit and slide in the hole. Then we used the level to get them straight and tamped the dirt around them.

We got all four set, it will be the pigs 10x10 barn. At 73, DH is in very good health and still strong!

Proud of our hard work!

Tired and dirty, we headed over to the neighbors for some upside down pineapple cake. But just past our place was billowing smoke! A grass fire was out of control and moving past. The owner had called the fire department but was afraid of the fire jumping the road, where it could take off in hundreds of acres of deep forest. DH and I bailed out of the mule armed with a hand towel and bath towel. We beat flames as they burned under the fence and up to the road. We sure were glad to see the fire trucks arrive!

After all the excitement we finally made it to the neighbors and got that cake!

We got back home, smoky, dirty and exhausted. Our son in law invited us to Olive Garden to celebrate DH’s birthday, so of course we said yes! Quick showers, dressed and out the door! We had a nice evening with family, lovely ending to a busy day.

 

[baymule]

A few days ago, our neighbor Robert and DH set a railroad cross tie for a corner post. I was babysitting the little grands. So tried to get a picture with the big strong HE-MAN guys, showing off their work, and the girls. The 3 year old was more interested in her stick and the 18 month old resisted having to stop long enough for a picture. She was screaming a hissy fit. LOL LOL

 

[baymule]

That nut job blew himself up last night. The Feds were closing in on him, he was in his car and went BOOM. No idea how they trailed him down, but DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS.

 

[baymule]

Today I put up 2x8’s on the sides, at the top. I had 8’ 2x4’s and cut off pieces, so I cobbled them together and made my rafters. Once again I used 2 ladders to hold up the boards.

I got all my scrappy rafters made and put up. I’m tired. Tomorrow I’ll deck it, cover with tar paper and put tin on it. I climbed a ladder to snap a pic of the top.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

He said he was getting more on Saturday and he’d give me one.

How do you do these things? Free chickens, free barrels.... sigh. I mean - do you cry? Do tears work? Or do you get loud and angry or pout? Sweet talk? Bargaining? I need to take a lesson or twelve! LOL!

Congrats! Hawg hut is looking great!

 

[CrealCritter]

I wanted to add a little story about cresol light poles that i see your working with. I had a good friend and fellow sawmiller in North Carolina who just about died sawing and squaring up a bunch of old cresol treated light poles. Come to find out he was highly allergic to cresol and sawing on a sawmill you can't help but breath some sawdust because we'll a sawmill makes a lot of saw dust. He spent two weeks in the hospital because some of the dust got into his lungs. He broke out in a severe rash and had to be put on a ventilator so he could breathe. The doctor told his wife to take his clothes and burn them and the inside of his truck had to be cleaned real well including the cabin air filter changed. I moved and cleaned his sawmill and burned the sawdust pile.

He sawed for many years, all different kinds of trees. But this was the first time he sawed light poles and he found out the hard way he is highly allergic to cresol.

I'm somewhat allergic to black walnut (break out in itchy hives) but nothing like my buddy is to cresol.

If you got itchy while chainsawing those cresol light poles. It could be your also allergic to cresol. Come to find out from my buddy cresol allergy is pretty common. So be careful around it and try and not breathe any of the sawdust. I would hate to read that someone had to go to the hospital because of it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

What's the rope for on the mule?

Geeze - I was looking for a long eared critter dragging a rope.....sigh

 

[CrealCritter]

Live by the sword / die by the sword.

It's quite obvious to me in order to do such evil acts he had to have let evil take hold of his heart.

Hate to have to say it, but I'm glad the nut job is gone!

 

[baymule]

We are going to build a permanent pig pen with a permanent shelter. We have worked real hard on pasture #2 sprigging Bermuda and Bahia grass in it, for pigs to root it up and eat it. So from now on, pigs will have their own place. Now, just have to build it!