Our (not so little) Piggies

Our piggies our getting bigger and bigger and bigger.  Right now the 7 of them eat about one bag of pig food a day!  They really do live up to there name! :)  About a month ago we moved them to a bigger area which they love.  I can now watch them run (and yes pigs can run) around, root under the apple tree, take a bath in a mud puddle and snort and squeal to their hearts content.  They are funny animals and I do get a kick out of them.  Strangely enough they're rather entertaining!  Liesel loves watching the piggies and I know she's going to miss them when they go to their "new home" at the beginning of next month. Liesel will especially miss Lulu who is the runt of the bunch and the only pig with a name.

Callie and Liesel checking on the pigs

"Here piggy, piggy" eat a flower

Our New Boarders

7 piglets

One of my DH's co-workers wanted to raise some pigs but didn't have the space to do it so my DH said we'd be happy to board them at our place. (My husband really enjoyed raising pigs last time so all he need was an excuse.)  In exchange for boarding their pigs we get two of them.  They are 6 weeks old and really are cute little things.  The spotted one and black one are ours.

Our Pigs

Yes, we have pigs and we've had them since the end of November.  I've been terrible about blogging so hence the fact that it has taken almost 3 months before I mention them! :)

Here's what they looked like when we first
got them at the end of November

December

February

They're getting quite big!

Our plan is to have them butcher in April.