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Thursday, February 24, 2011

9 Pigs got moved (not easily)

We ended up moving 7 mothers to be. We may even have new piglets this morning.  A couple of them looked like they were about to burst.

Dave thought he would be able to move the moms on his own.  Not only would that have been impossible but we could have used 3 people.  There were 19 hogs in the pen so we had to pick out the ones we wanted.  Then we had to persuade them to wake up, leave their hut and then we had to guild them to the gate.  We couldn't leave the gate open or everyone we didn't want to leave would have.  We spent a good hour chasing them around the hut, back into the hut, out of the hut and finally to the gate.  2 of them refused to leave! 

Later we went back because we noticed that one of the boars in the pen was getting his butt kicked by another boar and he was limping.  We moved him and Baby Ear to a pen of all sows.  The boar was so happy the limp was almost gone. 

While trying to move Baby Ear into the new pen he turned and while I was trying to convince him to turn around he went straight through my legs.  Then ran back down the lane from where he came.  It took some time to coax him back to the new pen.  Baby Ear isn't happy at all so we are going to set him up a hut close to the house and let him roam free.

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