We picked up some gilts (unbred female pigs)
We’ll we are trying something new, breeding pigs at the farm! After doing some more intensive research on which heritage breed(s) would be: good mama’s, love pasture, high-demand for piglets, overall very friendly and under a year growing-out time, we landed on GOS’s and using our Roads End Farm heritage crossbreeds.
Two of our gilts (unbred, female pigs) are purebred GOS’s, but we only registered one. Rosie, got registered because she grew into having the “standard” GOS traits that breeders will look for, and her tempermant is excellent. Her sister Hackenberry, will not be registered, and most likely not bred. Her tempermant early on was very skittish, broke through the electric fencing 2x’s and she just never “fills-out” on her back-end. That’s a nice way of saying she’s kind of a scrawny pig, even after deworming and making sure she was getting her fair share of feed.
Rosie, our purebred GOS gilt. She is a sweet heart!
Red, our crossbred gilt from Road's End Farm. She's a bit more skittish than the others.
Top-left to bottom-right: Violet, crossbred gilt, Red, crossbred gilt, Hackenberry, purebred GOS gilt, & Rose, purebred(registered) GOS gilt
The ladies out nom-nomming
Hackenberry, rooting around
In "Pizza-Hut" giving some scratchies
Farmer Karl showing Marah the ladies. They were sweet and not too pushy.
Just posing for some pics!
Getting those butt-scratchies in.
Farmer Karl and the ladies on a snowy day...where he popped the question! :)
Kitty-cats getting bold and following us into the pig pasture. The ladies were curious but the cats never let them get too close.
Just getting boot scratches in
Nom-nomming on some local organic corn and grower feed.
Karl giving Rosie some pets... she loves him & them the most!
Chickens now getting bold and checking out the pig pasture. The ladies don't ever mind, but do seem like they want to actually sniff/touch them.