This past weekend we rotated our guinea hogs to a new portion of our orchard. The move here necessitated letting the pigs loose from their last pen, and enticing them to walk about 20 feet over to this new pen. Of course they always wander a bit during the move, but a bucket of grain […]
Posts Tagged ‘piglets’
Guinea Hogs Moved to New Pen
Posted in Hogs, tagged american guinea hog, piglets, pork on August 15, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Reminder: Get Your Pigs and Pork Now!
Posted in Farm Store, Hogs, Meat, tagged american guinea hog, meat, piglets, pork on August 1, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
8/10 Update: hog shares no longer available. Pigs: 2 feeder pigs born in April are still available. $70/each or $100 for both. Reserve Your Hog Share Now & Eat Well All Fall! We are now taking hog share reservations for our next round of pigs going to the processor! For full details and to reserve […]
American Guinea Hogs For Sale
Posted in Hogs, tagged american guinea hog, homestead, meat, piglets, pork on July 18, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Our pigs have been breeding well, so we find ourselves with more pigs then we need at the moment. If you are looking for breeders or feeders, we have both available. Contact us to learn more. Include what you’re hoping to do with pigs, and where you’re located, and we’ll be happy to see what […]
Friday on the Farm 4/14/17: New Life!
Posted in Goats, Hogs, tagged american guinea hog, goat milk, goats, hogs, piglets on April 14, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Oh my goodness the last few weeks have been BUSY! You may have been able to tell that based on the lack of blog posts. So much has happened: pigs taken to the processor, springtime work completed, but today I’m going to focus on the new life that’s joined the farm this week. Piglets Born […]
Friday on the Farm 2/10/17: Winter Chores, Piglet Castration, Rabbit Sales
Posted in Friday on the Farm, Hogs, Rabbits, tagged american guinea hog, meat, piglets, pork, rabbit meat, Rabbits, winter on February 10, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Another wintry week has passed! This one had record high temperatures, though, so we are thankful for the mild winter weather. We try to cut back to “maintenance mode” in winter with no special projects, but things always pop up. That’s when we really appreciate the mild winter weather! Since it’s not too frigid outside, […]
Friday on the Farm 2/03/17: Farm Store Open Saturday, Piglet Update
Posted in Farm Store, Friday on the Farm, Hogs, tagged american guinea hog, ducks, eggs, hogs, homestead, piglets, pork on February 3, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Farm Store Open This Saturday 12-4pm This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month, which means the farm store will be open! Come by to get some of our delicious pork! We also have duck eggs on sale, 10% off this Saturday only. Piglet Update: They’re Eating Solids The piglets are a month old […]
Friday on the Farm 1/27/2017: The Pigs & Rabbits Are Growing
Posted in Friday on the Farm, Hogs, Rabbits, Uncategorized, tagged american guinea hog, hogs, homestead, kits, meat, piglets, pork, rabbit meat, Rabbits on January 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been another wonderful week on the homestead! There’s been a good amount of mud and dirty clothes, yes, but also warm weather and sunshine. We are thankful for the rain we received as well as the sunshine. Some of us (pigs!) are more thankful for the rain than others. The Pigs Are Porking Up! […]
Friday on the Farm 1/20/2017: Pork & Piglets
Posted in Friday on the Farm, Hogs, Meat, Uncategorized, tagged hogs, homestead, meat, piglets, pork on January 20, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been another week of enjoying our blessed life here on the homestead. The winter season is a time where the pace slows a bit, we can actually complete everything on the “to do” list, and have a few minutes to savor it all. Here are some things we enjoyed this week. Delicious Pork We […]
Piglets Part 2: Castration
Posted in Hogs, Uncategorized, tagged american guinea hog, hogs, piglets, pigs on July 4, 2016 | 1 Comment »
This is the second post in our piglets series where we detail how to care for piglets. Today’s topic: castration! One tough thing about raising pigs is the meat from males may get boar taint if the male isn’t castrated. There’s mixed information as to whether or not American Guinea Hogs develop boar taint. Even if you […]
Piglets Part 1: The Basics
Posted in Animals, Hogs, tagged piglets on June 27, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
We recently added 5 piglets to the farm, so we’re starting a short series of posts on how to raise piglets! Read on for the first installment. We had 3 pigs born in September which will be harvest size this fall at 1 year old. We wanted more pigs, though. One reason was that we […]
Piglets and Goat Kids
Posted in Goats, Hogs, tagged alpine, doeling, goats, hogs, piglets, video on July 31, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
We took a few videos of our new farm additions to share with you. The first is of our new AGH piglets… Here is a video of our new goat kid nursing as well as cameos from our other yearling does… This last video is kind of a blooper video showing how you can […]
New Babies!
Posted in Goats, Hogs, tagged alpine, american guinea hog, dairy goat, doeling, farrow, goats, hogs, kidding, piglets on July 29, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
We experienced a couple new births on the farm this week, our first goat birth and our first American Guinea Hog birth! Our first of two pregnant hogs farrowed six piglets the same day as our first pregnant American Alpine doe kidded her first doeling! Here’s a video of the newly born piglets: The piglets […]