We got very hot and bothered yesterday!
It’s the same old story, “what could go wrong”!?
We had to get 7 piglets ear marked and then loaded into the trailer.
They are 12 weeks old and full of sprite and heavy.
Yep, “Let the fun begin”
Luckily for us we had the much needed help of a friend,
John Eccles who did the ear tagging.
of course they got out, or the wrong piglet would be in the wrong chute.
At one stage one of the piglet girls got her head jammed between the ramp and the trailer so I had the job of driving the Hilux 2 inches.
David and John managing the ramp and holding on to the piglet.
Needless to say after David yelling at me we got there.
It took a few hours to do this and although it was a little cooler we were all hot and bothered during the ordeal
I am tired just thinking about it. The squealing hit the sound barriers!!!
Our problem is we have a lot of boys left. With no girls to take to breeding next year.
Maybe we will breed with just one of the girls later in the year.
15 piglets have been a handful to raise. We have learnt so much and will have more idea when to do things,
as the ear tagging would have been better done when they were younger.
Even before we started the procedures Ginger and her 7 escaped when David wasn’t looking.
The polaris the 4 dogs and I chasing them around on the 20 acres…..
It was totally chaotic we had to laughs at some stages and I was the gofer , get some feed, oh bring those 2 logs up, can you get that gate..
Stand on the front of the trailer so it doesn’t tip that was after it had and piglets all down the bottom end!
We are driving to Kerang to deliver the 6 girls and 1 boy.
We drove our 7 piglets, 6girls and 1 boy to start their journey to their new owners.
3 of the girls came from each mum. Yesterday we took them to East Kerang.
After the exhausting day before I was a little concerned it was going to be another bad day!
We stopped at Serpentine on the way up, to grab a drink and petrol.
Then we overshot the driveway to the farm we were delivering to, as the Map App said it was 150m away!
We were on a narrow little road with steep sides.
Daveo can not back a trailer to save himself. Neither can I!
60point turn to get the car turned around which included jack knifing the trailer!
Thank goodness it was his Hilux and not my car!
We eventually turn around and drive in. There was a great little chute for the trailer to be backed into.
“David, jump out let these guys do it.!”
To the millimeter my trailer was backed to the chute by Liam, son of Darren, he then jumps in the trailer and
just picked up each piglet and shooed them down the chute. ( they weigh over 25kg)!!!
I just shook my head they made it look so easy!!!
I was so relieved that the professionalism and ease that these true farmers showed gave our piglets an easy introduction to the farm.
On the uneventful drive home we talked about our next breeding with only 1 girl and how we will do things more professionally..
Our holiday mucked us up as the piglets should have gone at 8 weeks as they were 12 weeks old we really noticed the growth in them when we got home.