We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends in Maryland. We left the farm in the capable hands of our friends with the hope that momma pig would have her babies upon our return Dec 26th. Alas, here it is Jan 7th and still no piggies. Cris has been up all hours of the night to go out and check on momma so I jokingly recommend he purchase a video baby monitor. Well, we now have a baby video monitor... It is called "pig cam 1". Now he can just look at the monitor and see and hear her in the farrowing hut. Her breathing is heavy when she lies down. We had a local vet stop by Friday to check on momma and she is fine but just not ready to deliver yet. Cris is outbof town for 3 days next week so I hope she either delivers by Tuesday or waits till Friday.
We have moved the pigs further into the woods so they will eat more roots and acorns and less feed. They love bread and cabbage. The piglets are really growing nicely and have started eating out of our hands. Baby daddy is a sweetheart which is good. You dont want a large boar to not like you.
The highland cattle have been moved closer to our second field where there is some green grass on the terrace. Mandy will be two in May so we have to start thinking about when to breed her. The others have at least another year and a half to grow.
We have finished the deck floor on the back of the house and now have to put up railing. We will decide later which part to enclose with screen.
We are trying to create as much useful storage space as possible in our new little house on the prairie and also use as much of our own furniture as possible. I cannot bring my large china cabinet to the farmhouse so i converted a dresser into a buffet for the dining room. It holds all my good china very well. I will eventually paint it and change the hardware.
While we were in Maryland we came across a log filled with oyster mushrooms. Cris bought two coolers from Walmart to store them for our trip home. We ended up with about 40 pounds of mushrooms. We also found a lions mane mushroom but it was too old.
The hoop house is still plentiful. Cabbage, lettuce, herbs, squash and outside the turnips are thriving. Once momma pig has her babies and all are settled in, we will start getting ready for spring planting.
We had to take Teddy and Daisy both to the vet last week for dental appts. Teddy (wheaten terrier) had to have a canine pulled and teeth cleaning. He was real sick as a puppy and the antibiotics did a number on his teeth. Daisy had to have 2 baby canines pulled because they never fell out on their own and were interferring with her adults ones. Long story short...... $500. Always something....Month before last was the $500 Nugget injury.
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