Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[Hayden Goseek]

algebra causes migraines. be prepared!

 

[bill3607]

I think feral hogs are nuisance animals, open season, no bag limit. Too bad they're sketchy to eat.

A lot of people eat them. I have, but I pass on it most times.

When people throw them out in a field and the buzzards won’t eat them, then I really don’t want to either.

 

[Painted Calls]

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I missed it

 

[Isadora]

 

[tripletfeb]

algebra causes migraines. be prepared!

I can attest

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I missed it

I missed pi day

 

[ColtHandorf]

I missed pi day

I had some Chocolate Silk Pie the day after.

 

[troyer]

I would not mess with a domestic sow with piglets, even if she knew me, without being extremely cautious. Forget a feral cross.

Years ago our neighbors had a pig farm and the sows had the piglets out in the field in those half round quanzet huts. This quanzet happened to be beside a 12" in diameter tree with low hanging branches. As the sows had their piglets the farmers would go out there, to dock the tail and trim their teeth. They had four people doing it to make sure none of the piglets got away while they worked on them. One person watched the sows to give an alert if they got a bit huffy. Of course the piglets would squeal while they handled them. There was the one sow that had had her piglets and left them at the quanzet and was eating at the feeder when she heard one of her piglets squealing. She gave a GRUNT and came running at "mach one" speed, grunting/huffing the whole way to the quanzet, the lookout guy says, here she comes you better run!
One of the guys, instead of letting go of the sqealing piglet, he just hopped onto the quanzet thinking he'd be safe there.
Boy was he wrong! The mama pig went right after him, running him in several circles around the quanzet. By then he had dropped the piglet, but the sow wasn't done with him yet. She pushed him so hard he thought his life was seriously in danger. She ended up treeing him in that 12" tree right beside the quanzet. When she realized she couldn't get him, she turned her attention to the other guys. One by one she put all four guys into their own trees. She kept all four guys "treed" for two and a half hours! One of the neighbors drove by and saw what was going on and brought his tractor to "rescue" them.

 

[Isadora]

Years ago our neighbors had a pig farm and the sows had the piglets out in the field in those half round quanzet huts. This quanzet happened to be beside a 12" in diameter tree with low hanging branches. As the sows had their piglets the farmers would go out there, to dock the tail and trim their teeth. They had four people doing it to make sure none of the piglets got away while they worked on them. One person watched the sows to give an alert if they got a bit huffy. Of course the piglets would squeal while they handled them. There was the one sow that had had her piglets and left them at the quanzet and was eating at the feeder when she heard one of her piglets squealing. She gave a GRUNT and came running at "mach one" speed, grunting/huffing the whole way to the quanzet, the lookout guy says, here she comes you better run!
One of the guys, instead of letting go of the sqealing piglet, he just hopped onto the quanzet thinking he'd be safe there.
Boy was he wrong! The mama pig went right after him, running him in several circles around the quanzet. By then he had dropped the piglet, but the sow wasn't done with him yet. She pushed him so hard he thought his life was seriously in danger. She ended up treeing him in that 12" tree right beside the quanzet. When she realized she couldn't get him, she turned her attention to the other guys. One by one she put all four guys into their own trees. She kept all four guys "treed" for two and a half hours! One of the neighbors drove by and saw what was going on and brought his tractor to "rescue" them.

Pigs are scary! There's a reason we have our pen set up so I can feed and water from outside the pen. I can't imagine trying to deal with an angry sow

 

[ColtHandorf]

Years ago our neighbors had a pig farm and the sows had the piglets out in the field in those half round quanzet huts. This quanzet happened to be beside a 12" in diameter tree with low hanging branches. As the sows had their piglets the farmers would go out there, to dock the tail and trim their teeth. They had four people doing it to make sure none of the piglets got away while they worked on them. One person watched the sows to give an alert if they got a bit huffy. Of course the piglets would squeal while they handled them. There was the one sow that had had her piglets and left them at the quanzet and was eating at the feeder when she heard one of her piglets squealing. She gave a GRUNT and came running at "mach one" speed, grunting/huffing the whole way to the quanzet, the lookout guy says, here she comes you better run!
One of the guys, instead of letting go of the sqealing piglet, he just hopped onto the quanzet thinking he'd be safe there.
Boy was he wrong! The mama pig went right after him, running him in several circles around the quanzet. By then he had dropped the piglet, but the sow wasn't done with him yet. She pushed him so hard he thought his life was seriously in danger. She ended up treeing him in that 12" tree right beside the quanzet. When she realized she couldn't get him, she turned her attention to the other guys. One by one she put all four guys into their own trees. She kept all four guys "treed" for two and a half hours! One of the neighbors drove by and saw what was going on and brought his tractor to "rescue" them.

That's fantastic. I love good stories like that. Like my grandfather told me one about a farm dog they used to have that liked to snap at tree branches in the front seat when he was hanging out of the window in the car. Multiple times he got snatched out of the truck when he didn't let go. Or the story of the kids that came up to the house and asked if they could cut the fence to get their car. They have a Volkswagon Beetle with surfboards tied to the roof. They came over the top of a hill and the wind picked them up and set them down in the pasture without them going through the fence. lol

 

[ColtHandorf]

Pigs are scary! There's a reason we have our pen set up so I can feed and water from outside the pen. I can't imagine trying to deal with an angry sow

I've dealt with my friends' Gloucestershire Old Spots. They aren't too bad and let you handle the piglets after a few days. When they are fresh though, squealing gets her attention.