Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickisoup]

Morning Alaskan

 

[chickisoup]

My family used them all the time growing up.
I married a man who uses them all the time too.
We have never had hogs. The idea of putting them through a pigs nose never occurred to me.
I thought it was a different ring they put in a hog.

My reality just shifted.
I will never use those things again without feeling sorry for pigs.

I'm thinkin' your reality might shift again if you had ever have one without the ring get loose in your gardens

Seriously, the rings were used because many farmers used to let them run loose in their pastures and the rings kept them from digging huge holes that endangered the legs of their cattle and horses.

 

[Bunnylady]

My parents weren't farmers, but I grew up surrounded by agriculture. A lot of the farmers around us would turn livestock out on fields after they had been harvested (you'd be surprised how much a combine leaves behind). For pigs, they'd put a couple of strands of hotwire a few inches off the ground to keep them in. A few rings around the edge of the "rooter" was supposed to keep the big sows from digging under the wire and getting out.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[3goodeggs]

My parents weren't farmers, but I grew up surrounded by agriculture. A lot of the farmers around us would turn livestock out on fields after they had been harvested (you'd be surprised how much a combine leaves behind). For pigs, they'd put a couple of strands of hotwire a few inches off the ground to keep them in. A few rings around the edge of the "rooter" was supposed to keep the big sows from digging under the wire and getting out.

So the metal rings hit the hot wire and BAM!
That would work on me.

We squeeze those rings so tight to hold things together with, that It just did not occur to me that we used them differently than their original purpose.
Are there different sizes? Because ours would only work in piglets.
and even then I think they would cut right through.

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: My golden retriever needs toe rings. You should see out yard.

Edit to add; That would never happen! unless they were rubies and emeralds...and even then she's a tom boy so I doubt she'd wear them.

 

[chickisoup]

My golden retriever needs toe rings. You should see out yard.

Edit to add; That would never happen! unless they were rubies and emeralds...and even then she's a tom boy so I doubt she'd wear them.

 

[sourland]

Two down and more to come. This is shaping up to be a multi cup day.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[Bunnylady]

I think he's had enough already.