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Peggy Sue’s piglets had their first big adventure yesterday: the doors in their stall were opened to the pasture = Freedom to explore. Several of the more curious guys and girls poked their noses out the door right away. It took others until the afternoon to step onto the soil for the first time. By mid …
Peggy Sue is due to have her piglets on the 23rd of July (just in time for the Snake Mountain Bluegrass and the Connor Sisters concert). For the past few weeks, she has been loving living at the bottom of the apple orchard, sometimes laying in the wet soil, sometimes rooting around for acorns, and …
What happened to Peggy Sue’s piglets? This is a question we often get when a set of piglets moves away. Usually, the piglets are raised on our farm until they are old enough and big enough to be sent to Eagle Bridge Custom Meats and Smokehouse. The pigs that we care for and raise onsite become …
Yesterday was a milestone for the piglets…they received their first vaccinations. It also is a milestone in the apprenticeship. Nothing makes you think and act more quickly than the high-pitched squeal of the piglets when they get picked up, and the answering (and somewhat threatening) angry grunts and protests from the sow. Peggy Sue, no …
Friday was a busy day. We all were eagerly anticipating the birth of Peggy Sue’s piglets, it was the last day of orientation for the apprentices, chickens were going to slaughtered, and we were hoping for some snow so the sleigh rides could run. Luckily, Peggy Sue’s piglets were born, a day later than expected, …
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