Tag: feeding pigs

• Where are the pigs bowls…

  

  Sheila my big fat pig still picks up her pigs bowl and takes it to bed with her.  Hiding them. By the time I find it – it is buried in the straw in her hut. Her version of breakfast in bed. It means that at least once a day I have to crawl into…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 25, 2015

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography

  barn cats, cows, feeding pigs, heifers, hogs, milking, pigs

• Too Fat

  

  I am very particular about what my animals eat. Especially if I intend to eat that animal myself. But an animal that I am raising for  the freezer is fed very differently from an animal that I am raising to keep. A pregnant animal eats very healthily but the feed is lean. We do not want their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  fat cows, feeding cows, feeding pigs, too fat

• A day in the life of the Piggie Shush Sisters

  I thought I would show you what the Shush Sisters get up to during the day. Charlotte and Sheila. My naughty Hereford piggies. The Shush Sisters have a night time residence in the barn. It has big inside sleeping quarters, that can be closed right up for the winter, and an outside concrete courtyard. In…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 24, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  A day in the life of a pig, feeding pigs, hereford pigs, pigs and water, pigs in mud