This is the time of year when your day starts cold so you eat a hot breakfast, dress for the weather and go outside and then later in the morning, and layer at a time, you peel off your clothing leaving little pools of discarded colour like a trail of breadcrumbs to follow back home. Then later in the afternoon it begins to get cool again so you go in search of each layer but where is that jacket? Where was it that you ripped that top off and hung it in a tree – which tree – and was it a tree or a post or possibly on a bale of hay?
Sigh. Best I get up in the morning and just walk about putting on any of the items of clothing that I find.
I am always losing my clothes, and my phone and my sunglasses.
The plonkers have arrived. Four of them – they are Berkshires. Not pretty but that’s ok. No pig is as pretty as a Hereford piglet in my humble opinion. So these Berkshires will do for the first wave.
The pig farmer told me that a lot of farmers out here had trouble breeding their sows this winter.
No-one is sure why. So maybe Poppy just got involved in a bad year.
Poppy is relieved. The pressure is off her. Now she can focus on Autumn.
Now up and off to work for me. We are getting busy now. Lots of animals depending on me.
Lady Astor put herself in the barn last night but even though her udder is a very respectable size and she is quite floppy in the rear – I don’t think she is quite ready. I still think five more days.
Maybe today I will take photos of her from four different angles and you can guess too. Most of you have been watching cows get to this stage in my pictures for years!
OK out I go. Though I cannot find a THING TO WEAR!
Love celi
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68 responses to “I lost my clothes”
Those plonkers look mighty handsome to me, and I’m sure Celie’s training will soon have them UN-terrified. I have visions of you running about in bra and pants (or less). Do you need a new baggie for your ‘phone?
love,
ViV xox
Yes, Celi…do you need a phone bag? I’m sure I could come up with something. Is your phone a big ol’ smart phone? Lemme know. Much love to fellowship and farmy, Gayle
I know what you mean about the clothes. Doing the evening chores yesterday, I reclaimed my jacket (hanging over the hay cart), gloves (on the feed bin in the barn), and fleece top (dangling from a fencepost). If I didn’t have to do evening chores, I’d run out of clothes in about two days.
The plonkers look so sturdy and pretty cute. If a lot of pig farmers are having breeding problems, you might need to consider that the GMO corn is the culprit. A number of studies conducted in Europe have shown that GMOs cause reduced male fertility.
Yes I have read that too – and when you see how many adverts there are in america for “male performance” one has to assume it is pretty wide spread here .. c
When the moon makes its change to the next quarter (my grandmother would say) you must wait. Once the change has occurred you will have a baby!
Linda
The next quarter? that is a week away… she is looking very heavy today i will take an udder watch shot for you and you can tell me what you think tomorrow! c
Okay…take the loose back end also…it’s the biggest indicator!
I will try but her tail is still down I know we still have a ways to go though –
Pigs have such intelligent eyes, in my opinion.
I agree, your Herefords are a more pleasing piggie to look at… but the Berkshires here are sweet looking, as are all babies. I hate to think of frightened animals, so I hope they get more comfortable soon and settle in. Your glasses need a chain for around your neck so you can take them off without fear of losing them and, also, they are freely available when you go outside into the sun again. The idea of GMOs causing fertility problems, as liffster has suggested above here, is really rather scary — but it would answer the ‘why’ question.
Hope you have a great day and find all the stuff you left laying about yesterday… lol ~ Mame 🙂
GMO’s cause low fertility in human males there is no reason why it should not spread to pigs too.. c
I think the new gray and white piglets are very cute (and I don’t think pigs are that cute!). Hope you keep your sunglasses! Hard to see and keep the eyes safe in the blazing sun without them!
ALLISON!!! Welcome to the Farmy and Fellowship! I’m so happy you’re here! This is a delightful blog and I’m so glad you can enjoy it too! Much love and big ol’ smoochies, Gayle
Yep! Finally found my found in the birdbath. Thankfully, there was no water in it. Sigh. I set it down to get the hose to fill the birdbath but was waylaid by a pair of robins building a nest and trying to lead my away, tripped over the hose and decided what I needed was a cup of tea and there you have it. 🙂
Same here with the clothes, although the opposite season…….I have woolly socks and a cardi on which will both be discarded as the day goes on and warms up…..supposedly high 20s……(80s F) then I’ll be hunting for them tonight when it cools again. Love the berks with their frilled ears, they do look a mite terrified! I’ve had no computer for nearly two weeks and today I’m back, t’s been like having a chapter book, and getting to read each days happenings one after another. And a new baby, how delightful!
I always byu my piglets off farm. They come from the same place each time, they are free range and weaned but still with all their borthers and sisters. I am always amazed at how resiliant they are considering all the changes they go through in the first few days and given that they are still babies. I try and remeber that bit about them being babies in the early days and treat them as such, especially being all alone at night in a strange new place, but in the morning I always find that they have snuggled into the hay in an old dog house that I have put there just for the babies. One thing is for sure, they find their confidence from each other and quickly adapt to new things, I love watching them explore new places or dig a a hole for the first time. Its good that you can give your shed raised plonkers that experience. American pigs are so stocky in comparison to the free range piglets I buy here which are mostly berkshire crossses. I also feed my pigs eggs and grain (pollard) in lieu of commercial feed but find that they dont take to the eggs well very early on so I feed them something they are familier with then wean them on to the eggs. Then I do both for a while as I am not sure how many eggs are enough (I need to be weaned off using the commercial feed!) I would be interested to know what you feed your growing piglets, particularly how many eggs is enough protein?
I think a mash at the beginning is the best – these guys are older so i have to teach them to eat hay as well! But the eggs? I have no idea, i just throw them shell and all into the feeder as I find them. Probably 4 – 6 a day? But I agree it is important to bring everything in slowly, a pig with an upset stomach is not a happy pig.
These little piglets all look sad or suspicious. I hope they get used to their new surroundings soon.
It’s my gloves I’m forever losing, one time it was more than a year! I think I need those clip things that are used to attach children’s mittens to their jacket sleeves.
I work so hard to have little stations all around the farm where I place things but I still end up wearing two or three pair of gloves in a day, often carrying all three as I refind them – sigh.. c
Beautiful ANZAC Day morning here: well, it will be your holiday also tomorrow morning 🙂 ! Tho’ you will be at a different kind of Dawn Service and will not march up the street in a straight line but all over, losing more garments – you can always teach Conor two-up at lunchtime!! I think the Berkshires are just beautiful and much, much bigger than I envisaged – thought you were getting piglet babies . . .
They are 10 weeks old which is good, they have had a good start. c
hahahah stripping until you need to regroup! Your piggies will be fine- too bad about Poppy not being pregnant- maybe this will inspire her!
Beautiful plonkers and kitty .. You made me laugh about losing things – snap! Smiles your way Celi