“Hey Dereck, what are your plans for the pigs?” asked Nana.” I was hoping you would take them,” Mr.Derek replied. We were having Miss. Annie and Mr. Derek over for dinner. Dad said, “We’ll take them in!” But we needed a little time to set up the electric fence. Soon we were ready, so on the next weekend Derek brought the girls over (Dotty and Sue), and his son Walter. We put the sows into the electric fenced in area. The boys were a little harder. There was one bore (Sausage) that was being stubborn, but we finally got them all. There are 4 boars and two sows. The Boars are: Larry, Sausage, Bacon, and Pinocchio.
A few months later… We converted Larry over with the girls, and one day papa was rubbing Larry’s side when suddenly Larry rose up on his back legs, he slammed papa, scraping his arms, legs, and thighs. Papa also fell against the golf cart. He whacked Larry over the head with the grabber.
We get food for the pigs at the Louisa Food Bank, a local restaurant, our garden, the feed store, and Nana also cooks rice, beans, and oatmeal from our pantry. It cracks me up whenever we walk out to the front pigpen because the sows roll over on their sides to be rubbed. When they stand, you can see their bellies are almost touching the ground because they are both pregnant. We are going to have piglets soon and new born piglets are the size of soda cans with legs. Raising pigs is a mind-blowing experience.
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