People: Taylor! You are so lucky to live where you live! I am so jealous!
Me: Oh, yes. It is magical!
Speaking of magical:
Would you like to know what screaming piglets inside of your house sounds like:
I am feeling a bit better about my current situation. Yesterday was a pretty chill day regarding the piglets. Chicks were hatching and that was cute and fun. I went on a walk to check cows and found Matilda with a newborn calf!
And here is the calf 8 hours later:
She just jumped into the feeder to hide from David. Matilda did not care for her shenanigans.
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Kate: Mom. When I get home from work tonight, remind me I need to take a test.
Me: Ok. Our house is not going to be the best place to focus on a test.
Kate: Why?
Me: Well. We have three piglets in the crate in the house and your Uncle is coming by to deliver a bunch of pipe so Dad can build a bridge and we are babysitting your cousins and Dad is going to attempt to perform a surgical procedure on a piglet.
Kate (unfazed): Well, it is not like I can take the test anywhere else. The whole world is shut down.
Me: True. Ok, we will hope for the best.
Let the records show: 25 pigs have been sold.
So that is something.
David to Hadley: I am going to need you to take the towels out of the pig crate and wash them.
Me: Should we wash them? Or throw them away? I am not sure what the correct procedure is for dealing with towels piglets have been living on?
I do, in fact, have an amazing washing machine. I have spoken to you about it before. It has this cycle called:
Sanitize with Oxi
STEAM COMES OUT OF THE MACHINE. It makes me truly feel like it is cleaning things, no?
But what about pig towels? Mind you, piglets have been living on these towels for a couple of days.
I guess I could run them through about 8 times? Would that do it?
And then never allow humans to use them again? They can be farm animal towels?
Or maybe just throw them away and wash my hands of it?
Happy Friday!
Throw them away and start saving old tshirts and cloths and sheets for such ventures, then they can be tossed and burned too. You don’t want to be passing any animal germs to your family. You need an outside room that is heated for all your animal nursing. On your garage or side of one of your buildings that has electric.
Put an ad on FB or wherever/at the feed store and anywhere else you can think of to sell the piggys. What are you feeding them? They hardly look old enough to be weaned.
Holy moly, that is worse than a newborn baby. I could not handle that… I barely made it through the newborn stage with my two without selling them.
Fun story… when my oldest had enough of the baby crying, he said, “Maybe we can just put her in the basement and close the door!” And oh, I was tempted.