I have no idea how to raise pigs!
Here's the story.... We decided in the spring to raise laying pullets from chicks. Pre orders were $10 each, 50% deposit. This one woman wanted to order some but kept going back and forth on whether she wanted them. She wanted around 30. We went ahead and ordered 100 chicks expecting her to be purchasing a large number. Then she changed her mind. Great. So we sold off some of the young chicks and got other orders. Then she changed her mind and decided she wanted 45. We talked and discovered that she raises Silver Foxes and as part of the deal, she'd give us a trio for a reduced price on the pullets.
Fast forward through a lot of mind changing from her.. .months of it.... MONTHS of it!
She came today to get her chickens and deliver a trio of 3 month old does. Last night, she txt's me, "Do you want some piglets?" She had three Ossabaw/Tamworth mixed piglets they wanted to unload for $85/ea. Lots of txts and emails later and we can't meet on a price. Fine. No biggie for me. We don't need piglets.
More drama this morning - truck issues, trailer issues (all understandable but adding to the straw on the camel's back) - and they finally arrive. The does look great. They are in quarantine. But before they arrived, she is txting me again about the pigs. We told her we could do $150 for the three and that was the best we could do. Now she's asking if we'll take the pigs for the balance they owe us ($155) plus whatever extra pullets we have left. I really had no idea how many pullets we had left above the 45 we owed her. So when they arrived, they had the piglets.
The piglets are now, temporarily, in our brooder stall in the barn. We haven't even cleaned it out from the last run of chicks because we've been using it as a hospital coop for injured chickens. They guys are going to work on putting some wire fencing around the bull pen outside. Greg's out there cleaning out the stuff from the brooder stall so nothing gets damaged - property or pigs!
I have no idea how to raise hogs. I really was not expecting to get pigs today.
Here's the story.... We decided in the spring to raise laying pullets from chicks. Pre orders were $10 each, 50% deposit. This one woman wanted to order some but kept going back and forth on whether she wanted them. She wanted around 30. We went ahead and ordered 100 chicks expecting her to be purchasing a large number. Then she changed her mind. Great. So we sold off some of the young chicks and got other orders. Then she changed her mind and decided she wanted 45. We talked and discovered that she raises Silver Foxes and as part of the deal, she'd give us a trio for a reduced price on the pullets.
Fast forward through a lot of mind changing from her.. .months of it.... MONTHS of it!
She came today to get her chickens and deliver a trio of 3 month old does. Last night, she txt's me, "Do you want some piglets?" She had three Ossabaw/Tamworth mixed piglets they wanted to unload for $85/ea. Lots of txts and emails later and we can't meet on a price. Fine. No biggie for me. We don't need piglets.
More drama this morning - truck issues, trailer issues (all understandable but adding to the straw on the camel's back) - and they finally arrive. The does look great. They are in quarantine. But before they arrived, she is txting me again about the pigs. We told her we could do $150 for the three and that was the best we could do. Now she's asking if we'll take the pigs for the balance they owe us ($155) plus whatever extra pullets we have left. I really had no idea how many pullets we had left above the 45 we owed her. So when they arrived, they had the piglets.
The piglets are now, temporarily, in our brooder stall in the barn. We haven't even cleaned it out from the last run of chicks because we've been using it as a hospital coop for injured chickens. They guys are going to work on putting some wire fencing around the bull pen outside. Greg's out there cleaning out the stuff from the brooder stall so nothing gets damaged - property or pigs!
I have no idea how to raise hogs. I really was not expecting to get pigs today.
