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[FlaRocky]

I,m really enjoying your post. Please keep it up.

Thanks,

Maye

 

[PartridgeRooster]

Two Hereford sows with piglets and two mutt sows one with piglets. Use to have Hereford boar but he died and I got a Tamworth/Large Black boar.

 

[PartridgeRooster]

My mutt Sows piglets are a diverse crossing of Yorkshire x Duroc x Hampshire x GOS. The mutt mothers are GOS x Duroc but they look more like a GOS. They were raised in the woods by a friend of mine so they love to root around.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Can we have some pictures please? How are your mares doing? We have been lucky enough up here with hay and straw prices staying reasonable. I heard we are teh exception this year with all the drought.

 

[PartridgeRooster]

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Can we have some pictures please? How are your mares doing? We have been lucky enough up here with hay and straw prices staying reasonable. I heard we are teh exception this year with all the drought.

Lol, which Mare's are we talking about. I have Emily the Buckskin, Ash the Grulla Mustang, Sugar the Black paint, Cassie the Vanner mutt, Bitsy the Black Shire and Mitsy the Bay Shire. They are all doing great. I have several acres of hay fields that I use on my livestock. I only bought some straight alfalfa for the wethers, which isn't being used anymore.

 

[Avalon1984]

I read about the alfalfa issue, sorry to hear that. I meant the Shire mares of course

 

[PartridgeRooster]

I'm liking the Draft horse life. I want more, more, more, more.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Yeah, tell me about it. They are WORSE than potato chips. So darn cute though. How are your whethers doing? Have you lost any more to the alfalfa situation?

 

[jbourget]

pigs are tough to breed, unless you got the wild land for the to roam and birth in a nice hut, or the exspensive pipe contraptions to hold down the sows from rolling voer the piglets. i had a litter of 5 and one made it a board of coarse. way back when........ and the board would always always always bust out to get to them no matter what. he was not a hapyp boar he bit the bullet

 

[PartridgeRooster]

The Wethers are doing great. I weaned two hereford litters of pigs. I may keep a couple females.