Activity Update

A lot has happened since the last entry. We took two hogs to Lockwood Packing Company for processing this past Monday, 19 June. Both of those are up for sale, and if they are not sold, we'll keep the meat for the family. Two additional hogs have been sold to Ken Stewart, owner of Ken's Cafe in Arcola, MO. These two hogs will be taken to Lockwood on Wednesday. The fifth and final hog is scheduled to be butchered on 24 July in Golden City.

We sold Hero, one of the kid billies and look to sell the remaining five soon. As mentioned previously, the female kids will be kept to expand our herd, which is why we have two breeding billies. They will be used to prevent inbreeding.

We have one brooding hen, which had four chicks hatch this past week. There are still approximately 10 eggs that she continues to sit on, so we'll see if any more hatch in the coming days.

We have two guinea hens brooding as well. One has about 20 eggs in her clutch and this nest is in the coop.  The second guinea has a nest with about 12 eggs along the trail to the back pasture.

Pic 1: Five Red Waddle Hogs in their containment area.
Pic 2: Hero soon after his birth.
Pic 3: All of our billies, the two larger billies are our breeding stock.
Pic 4: Three of our hogs, watering themselves.

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