Foghat. Not the band, it's what I wish I had been wearing this morning while trying to feed. Pea soup thick, I guess the Serpentine, or Snake Creek in Okmulgeesh lingo, was pumping her moisture into the flow, and I literally couldn't see five feet in front of me. Jethro scared the life out of me by sneaking up from behind, and I must have scared his dumb behind as well cause he promptly turned around and ran into a tree.
Life at the farm carries on, and the next project on the plate is to get some newly selected gilts bred to increase our spring pig crop. After that it's fencing time, and it looks like we'll be having to re-fence about half the farm, plus add new gates, water lines, etc. We currently have 61 growing pigs on the ground with two more girls yet to have pigs, and we're almost out of room. Adding four more gilts to the herd on top of that means we'll have to take next year's vegetable plot out of the farm plan.
I got a shot of Geez and Myfoot's pigs this morning after most of the fog had burned off, but you can still see a little right where the creek's at:
Here's a shot of Dottie's pigs, and you can see they're starting to put the weight on. I'm definitely saving a few of these girls for breeding, but since they're Dottie's daughters I'm sending them to etiquette school first:
Coop delivery is tomorrow and Clean Food delivery is this Saturday. If you're new to the site and haven't heard about these great places to order Oklahoma grown stuff on-line, here's the links: Oklahoma Food Coop and Clean Food Tulsa. Thanks for reading, and we'll see some of you Saturday at the drop-off!
Pork & Greens