HELP my 1st Pig

[Mini Horses]

Agree potbelly for sure. Now...you wanted to start an area for a melon patch? 4 hog panels, her inside. Roots & grass will disappear! Pigs cannot sweat. Thus the mud packs and mud holes also keep them cool. You may be cool enough there very soon...LOL

You know that you can cook a lot of fat from a chunk of meat. So, you will still have pork, just skim the fats. Better than most "road kill" ... good find.

 

[CrealCritter]

Went to Rural King and picked up a bag of swine feed 16% protein. She's eating and drinking now which is a real good sign. I looked for swine dewormer but all they had was goat, cattle and horse. I'll check again early next week.

I have her on the north side of the poultry house where this time of the year it's most always shady. Grand daughters will be here soon to see "piggy"

Thanks everyone you all ROCK. In all honestly I probably would have drove right by this pig - if it we're not for you all. I knew you all would help me do what's right, so I turned around and rescued the pig.

 

[CrealCritter]

Update... DW has named her Pork Chop she continually opens the door to her pen and wonders around the chicken yard with the chickens. She goes back in to her pen to get muddy, sleep, eat & drink in the shade. I'm going to pickup a few 5' x 16' stockade panels and make her something she can't bust out of so easily. But other than that she seems healthy and happy. It's hot and dry so I need to keep spraying water in her pen to make it muddy for her.

Our chickens are even laying in the shade with her. But yesterday when I put her in the chicken yard they were freaking out ( I call that "setting off the chicken alarm" when they freakout like that) which happens when they hear or see something new.

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I'm really glad I decided to rescue this pig. I can almost be sure it would have become coyote chow if I hadn't.

Thanks again to you all for giving me the confidence needed to bring pork chop home.

I'll say it again - you all ROCK!

 

[CrealCritter]

She seems to enjoy being in with the chickens and I seen a few younger chickens hitching a ride on her back today. What a difference a day makes.

 

[sumi]

Uh oh…


I had a pig called Bacon once…. He tasted very nice.

 

[CrealCritter]

She's a little rooter and those eyelashes are something else.

 

[CrealCritter]

So I just came from the kitchen, DW was cutting a couple of apples into chunks. I said to her you got a taste for apples hu? She then said "A apple a day, keeps the doctor away. Hope the same holds true for Pork Chop". DW never cut a apple up for me like that before .

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Me thinks you might have to find a Mr. Pork Chop and then eat the baby pork chops cuz MISS Pork Chop seems to be rooting her way right into permanent pig status!

Welcome Smuvers Farm!

 

[Beekissed]

I agree...she just has an adorable face, is all.

I had a sweet and good pig once and she never did anything so bad that she annoyed me...except for the last day, when they tried to load her in the truck to haul her to the butcher...didn't annoy me, but sure did make my Dad mad. Poor thing just wouldn't get on that truck...it was almost like she knew. I cried all that day...I was a teenager and that was the first animal I had loved that was due to be food.

I'd sit in her pen on a stump and she would lay her huge self across my lap and get her belly scratched. When she escaped the pen, she'd just graze clover around the pen until it was time to eat, then scoot back in the pen when I called her. She was a sweety. Her name was Matilda.

She had a cutie face like Miss Pork Chop...like she was smiling all the time.

 

[CrealCritter]

Paw Paw can I go see Pork Chop

Can I stay in here a little longer? I gotta catch a baby chicken first.