HELP my 1st Pig

[baymule]

Nope... DW has already named her Pork Chop - so it's a done deal.

Unless she's pregnant with little bacon bits......

 

[NH Homesteader]

She's awful cute. I have a soft spot for pigs. Makes it hard to eat them sometimes, but they usually do something to irritate you and make it easier!

 

[CrealCritter]

My current gilt is the only pig that has "made the cut" to stick around, lol. She's sweet, not aggressive, doesn't challenge fences... Overall keeper pig!

Well my chicken, turkey and rooster yards perimeter are 3 wire electric fence on the outside. "Miss Pork Chop" has tested all the fencing with her nose. Got zapped twice that I seen and has since stopped testing the fence.

She did however bust through the door to the turkey yard and somehow ended up in the rooster yard. We never found where she got into the rooster yard though, she a little houdini I guess.... Those inner sections are not electrified only the outer perimeter is.

I had my DW help me get her back into the chicken yard and the turkeys and roosters back into their yards. My DW said to "Miss Pork Chop" "You just wanted to say hi to the turkeys and roosters didn't you Pork Chop?" And of course you know "Miss Pork Chop" looking all innocent, wagged her tail and snorted as to say Yes and like she completely understood what my wife was saying to her... Good Lord

 

[CrealCritter]

I literally just joined so I could follow the exploits of Miss Pork Chop!!!

Well welcome SS and the adventures of a rescue pig now named "Miss Pork Chop" and a guy (me) who never raised a pig in his life before.

 

[Beekissed]

Just adorable!!! Nope, I predict Pork Chop will stay...unless she gets really big, ugly and mean, I'm thinking that sweet, beautiful little girl is going to get pretty attached. Pigs are sorta like dogs sometimes.

 

[baymule]

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 .

So maybe you should say Oink Oink.......

 

[Mini Horses]

Yeah, Miss Pork Chop is gonna have a loooooooong & happy life there on the farm.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Who knew that math would come in handy for a farmer!?

 

[sumi]

I think @NH Homesteader means switch her with a new pig when the time comes.

 

[CrealCritter]

Miss Pork Chop - with white nasty stuff hanging out both sides of her mouth. But she's so cute - not!


She has most definitely put on a little weight since I picked her up though. This evening is the last day for her dewormer - \o/