Or you could call it Mid-November chaos.
First, breeding season for the pigs arrived. After a long summer vacation of grazing, fence edge clearing and lounging, the boys, Balto & Rin Tin Tin, were put back to work. Fortunately, all the moving of pigs around the property happened before the snow came, though they don’t mind the snow too much.
It was a busy week, and Uno, the chastity police, had to do a lot of barking. Uno clearly believes No means No, and in fact, he might even think that yes should mean no. The video is PG, just Rin meeting and trying to check out if the sows were ready to breed.
And then there is snow. Now we always expect some early season snow….we just start to scurry when it looks like it might stay around..till say…Spring!
That wasn’t the forecast last week, but Friday morning as things started to shift Mari had a gut feeling that this might be it, we might be snowed in for the season.
We did get about 5 inches of heavy wet snow Friday night, that is what happens when you choose a farm at 1400 feet in a snow belt. And that froze into a nice solid crust by Saturday afternoon.
Then…the 5 day forecast started to show significantly more snow coming early this week. Oops…Mari’s gut might be right. Time to get as much out of the fields and barnyard as possible.
Yeah, snow and our electric fence aren’t really a good combo. Fortunately the pigs are behaving…so far.