Finally, a nice day!

It's been a while since we have had a nice day. And I finally remembered to bring my camera outside with me.

Here are the steers that are left, we are down to 15 of them, just hanging around.
And Casey's new purchase. Six new Berkshire boars. This type of pig is known for having the highest quality pork and the pork is red in color. They take longer to finish out, so we hope by breeding them with what we have we can have a fast finish hog with high quality meat.

The Berkshire hogs have the 4 white feet, white snout and tip of the tail. Their piglets are usually born with the neatest color patterns. Often there are piglets that look like dalmatians. Hopefully I can post pictures of their piglets in 4 months or so.
Some of the piglets we currently have.This group of pigs were recently weened from their mothers and moved into the finishing barns.
The outside of the finishing barns. This spring Case had the Amish come up and add the doors on the barns. The past two winters the ends have been open. I'm so glad that we added them. They really help keep the heat in.

New Pigs.

In the past 2 days we have had 7 new litters born. The weather has been so nice and wonderful outside!

He's an....

We have 16 boars.

15 of them are no problem. They stay in their pen and do their job.

There is just one, that thinks he can come and go as he pleases. And he does.

A couple of weeks ago we looked out the window and saw him walking around with the steers, obviously out of his pen. We hurried up, chased him back, just to watch him jump over the fence. So, we let him go.

Here he is yesterday. This spot is where the steer feeder was, so he was cleaning up what they spilled on the ground.
It was feeding time for the pen the boar is supposed to stay in. Here is a video of him deciding that he'd join his friends and hop back into his pen where he belonged.