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Originally Posted by bbb3601
Yes. The son is upset he didn't show higher. All of the Judges told him he should be proud to have done so well with his animal (we didn't spring for the high end model lol) What amazes me most is how smart pigs are.
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Congrats on such a good job!
We've had a lot of pigs. Most came in the spring and left in the fall. Two were registered purebred Gloucestershire Old Spot (GOS) sows. They came one June and left eight and nine years later when they died of old age. Mattie made the trip from Lincolnville to Talmadge in the back of our pick up. It had a cap on the back. We went through the drive though of McD's in Belfast. She wouldn't stop grunting and people kept looking. It was funny but embarrassing at the same time because really, who drives around Belfast with a 300 pound grunting pig? We weren't planning on bringing home three more so we borrowed a livestock trailer with a ramp (ours doesn't have a ramp) and went back the following weekend. Two pigs went elsewhere.
Smart smart smart pigs! We broke several bales of hay while unloading a truck one fall. Mattie and Penny realized the electricity was off on the hot wire and took themselves for a walk. They found the pile of hay, snuggled in under it and had a nap. First thing in the morning you could see steam rising from the pile of hay while two 600 pound sows with huge floppy ears slept. People used to come out to see them first thing in the morning. They'd grunt and wiggle, grunt some more, get up and look around, then head off to the apple tree beside the road for the first course of breakfast. They're called orchard pigs in England because they do such a good job of cleaning up and fattening up in orchards in the fall. I fed and watered them in their pen and they spent most of the day there. When they were hungry they'd wander off into the woods to other apple trees for a snack. As far as pigs go, GOS are lazy so they never went too far. They were potty trained and only "went" in the corner of their pen. After supper they wandered back to the hay pile, snuggled in again, and went to sleep. There's nothing like a pair of 600 pound slow-moving pigs that beg to be petted and for treats like dogs. Six weeks later I wasn't willing to keep breaking bales for them because we were getting light snow and it would have been a big mess. They returned to their cabin. Yes, it really is a cabin. It's the hen house now.
One more pig story before I go back to class. We had a boar on loan for a couple of months. We couldn't keep him any where for more than a day or two. Sausage had an acute case of wanderlust. Around 6 am one day my neighbor Chris yelled, "Good morning Robin!"
I went out to the porch to say good morning but before I could speak she said, "Sausage is up the road. He went for a walk with us. He's on his way back but he's getting tired so he's slowing down."
Thankfully, I have really, really nice neighbors!
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