A couple weeks ago a friend was in town for a visit and he helped me build a farrowing house. Because if our warm weather, I thought a roof would be all she would need. Towards that end, I affixed a 4' x 8' roof into some very stout uprights and thought is would suffice. However, we got an inch of rain last night and when I went to check on her this morning, the bottom of her little house was an absolute mud puddle.
Then the vision of lifeless little Berky Bodies floating in water hit me and I've been a nervous wreck ever since. I couldn't stand it so like that proverbial long tailed cat in a room full of Dobermans, I have gone back to the drawing board and called up a friend and pleaded, "What should I do? I just know I'm about to kill ever pig in this litter!"
He slapped me out of my hysteria and told me to build a tarp covered hoop house out of cattle panels. What's more, because I'm injured at the moment, he has offered to come help me this Saturday. Here is the basic plan:
Which I found here:
I think we may frame it up a bit differently to make it portable but this is the general idea of what we will be doing.
Additionally, my wife wants to be able to look out the window and see the wee little cuties, so she suggested we out them right outside our kitchen window for a few weeks. It was like, "I don't like the idea of her having them pigs where we can't keep an eye on them. Why don't you move her over here and put her right outside the kitchen window?"
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OK! You talked me in to it!"
Guy, it really has been a lot of fun. I'm thankful there is a forum that has a membership large enough to provide conversation yet small enough that we can basically blog about our farms. This forum helps me hold myself accountable. Once I say that I'm goin to do something here, I feel more compelled to follow through. So thank you for the encouragement. I often forget to acknowledge the encouragement of others in my excitement to put a new post up. Please forgive that oversight.
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