Sheila is 72 inches long ( 6 foot, 182cm) and her girth is 68 inches ( 172cm). She is 34 inches high at the highest point of her back and when I measured her girth I could not reach all the way around her, I had to lean over her back and kind of throw the end of the tape around and underneath her, then crawl under her belly and retrieve it.
Not many pigs would be happy with all that behaviour but Sheila and I have an understanding.
After applying the equation from yesterday Sheila’s weight comes to 832 pounds/377 kg. And the WINNER of words is Eydie with an amazing estimate of 831 pounds. Email me Eydie at celima.g.7@gmail.com and we can discuss your guest post on the 18th of February. If you want to of course. No worries.
In many old Polynesian cultures if the king and his wives were nice and fat and well fed they were seen to be successful and powerful. Only the poorest or hardest working were as skinny as the skinny girls of today. I love Sheila’s size. Pigs keep growing and I know of some perfectly healthy and still working boars who have reached 1500 -1700lbs sometimes more. There are even some show pigs as much as a ton (2,000 pounds) though I imagine their lives are not very long. Sheila will keep growing in size this is why one must NOT overfeed pigs unless they are not expected to live terribly long. In winter Sheila eats 4 pounds of my special feed mix a day (quarter of which is alfalfa or rabbit pellets) one egg, fruit, all the hay she wants and vegetables on store day. 
In the animal kingdom the biggest and tallest and strongest and most flamboyent are the leaders of the herds.
Our big Sheila is the leader of her herd. This is why she has been deemed a Pet on the farm. I want her to stick around. She knows all my ways and trains the younger ones and keeps the older ones in order. She is a natural and firm but fair leader.
Yesterday we smoked a couple of our own pasture raised chickens in John’s new home made smoker.
We had fun yesterday. Sheila loved the attention. All the measuring and hugging.
When I left her last night she was standing in the yard happily munching on hay intent on getting even bigger.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
74 responses to “Sheila is a tall girl”
Ah, Sheila. Such a wonderful large piggy girl. I couldn’t even guess her weight, but am happy to know it now and her dimensions. Gives me a much better visual idea of her size relative to other animals. Amazing.
Oh my goodness! I’m chuckling away here. HOW DID I END UP WITH THOUSANDS OF POUNDS? 😉 Actually very glad to hear that Sheila is NOT that heavy. I’d worry about those little pigs getting rolled flat if she was. Good fun Celi. Congrats Eydie!
Tall girls rock.
Looking forward to your post Eydie and congratulations: was I ever off . . . last remember Miss C saying Sheila weighed about 600 lbs and I kind’of ‘went’ from there 🙂 !
I guessed 368kg – I was pretty close! Just a couple of feeds out!
You were VERY close – you must know your pigs! c
… like the back of my hand…!
Maybe Sheila thought you were measuring her for a new dress. 🙂 She is a wonderful pig. That’s a nice smoker your John made. Dinner looks delicious.
Having seen Sheila in the flesh, no photo does her justice without something to give perspective. She’s huge but she remains one beautiful pig!
Well, that was a lot of fun, Miss Celi! What’s next? Lots of love, Gayle
Good on you Sheila enjoy that hay! Those chooks look very tasty Celi ..
Congratulations Eydie, you were so close! I on the other hand, a city girl by birth, was way off the mark. I look forward to reading your post while Celi is away. The chicken from the smoker makes me hungry, I am drooling at the thought of a juicy slice for my supper. Celi, do you do delivery?