Yesterday's chicken I got Tasha and her brother, Boris, from a local farmer. She had quite a few pigs and not much idea of whom fathered the piglets. They were mineral deficient when I got them too, with curly hair, which show that they require some food other than whole grain, which is what they were fed as a sole diet. Anyhow, they were well fed here and became the rototilling crew until Boris got too old and possibly could breed his sister, so he got traded for Minnie, a piglet of my former sow who was a newborn piglet on the farm the year before. Sonya, the sow, was bred to a boar from up north.
The problem is that Minnie was very aggressive and chased everything out of the pen. She has a very large pen of almost a quarter acre, so I am sure she is not lacking space. Then she began to bite the birds and finally now, eat them. Tasha has joined in and they have devoured twenty some ducks and chickens. As soon as the mobile butcher can come, they will have to go to the freezer or there won't be a duck or chicken left on the farm. I am sad to see them go because they are quite delightful. Minnie loves belly rubs and will fall over if she gets one and stay mesmerized by the sheer pleasure. Tasha loves to have her ears scratched. Both of them make a formidable rototilling crew and have done two pens remarkably well, turning and returning the manure and spoiled hay so that is can be a garden next year. I am sad to say goodbye to the girls, but enough is enough . Bad piggies!
The problem is that Minnie was very aggressive and chased everything out of the pen. She has a very large pen of almost a quarter acre, so I am sure she is not lacking space. Then she began to bite the birds and finally now, eat them. Tasha has joined in and they have devoured twenty some ducks and chickens. As soon as the mobile butcher can come, they will have to go to the freezer or there won't be a duck or chicken left on the farm. I am sad to see them go because they are quite delightful. Minnie loves belly rubs and will fall over if she gets one and stay mesmerized by the sheer pleasure. Tasha loves to have her ears scratched. Both of them make a formidable rototilling crew and have done two pens remarkably well, turning and returning the manure and spoiled hay so that is can be a garden next year. I am sad to say goodbye to the girls, but enough is enough . Bad piggies!
Bad Tasha piggie!
Today's chicken.
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