Category Archives: Livestock

We’ve been looking for the perfect egg basket for almost 2 years now. Most of them are either too large (6-dozen egg capacity), or too expensive ($20 for welded wire … I think not!). We finally found this perfectly sized … Continue reading →

We’re still crunching numbers to put together the final breakdown post, but I thought I’d share a few observations in no particular order. All numbers are based on hanging weight (our butcher leaves the head on compared to the normal … Continue reading →

When you tell people you are going to raise pigs, it seems that everyone has an opinion. “Did you know pigs can eat people?” “They’ll tunnel under your fence and escape.” “You need a barn for pigs.” “Pigs wreck the … Continue reading →

They came. They went. There are no pigs now. I’ve been considering how to write this post for some time, and we decided that photos were a little beyond the tone of our blog, at least for now. You can … Continue reading →

I suppose it’s a little macabre to write about how entertaining our pigs are just 30 hours before they are butchered, but you’ll have to forgive me. I’ve enjoyed having the pigs on our property, and I’ll be sad to … Continue reading →

Real farmers have livestock scales. We are not real farmers, but we do have livestock. We’d like to know their weight, so we’ve worked out a simple method using only readily available tools: Get a bathroom scale Chase down a … Continue reading →

Some months ago Ebey Farm wrote about the passersby who stop and watch his pigs. It made me smile at the time, and about a month later we got our weaner pigs. Time passed and finally our pigs got brave … Continue reading →

We’ve got a severely naked chicken butt in our flock. I know it’s mean, but I can’t stop giggling when I see the poor hen walking around. The Wyandotte is the latest of our hens to start molting. At least … Continue reading →

Today when I was bringing firewood in for the day I noticed that the pigs were lazing in their hut with dirty snouts. I thought that was odd because they haven’t been rooting much since their little original pig pen … Continue reading →

The usual word association with “pig” is “dirty”, but I’ve decided that “lazy” might be a better match. Perhaps if we had heritage breed pigs things would be different, but our pigs have food, water, and shelter and don’t feel … Continue reading →