RedEyedWhiteBunny

Pigs get a new area for them where previous year had a big nest they made for winter.

This little pig seems like she smiling with her coloration on her face. The other one no interested in the water hose.

Treated Thelma & Louise to some old cheese curds.

For first fence expansion, I fenced pigs to my garden area to prep it for future planting in a week or two. Planning to upload video of progress. If you like these videos, please follow me. Thanks for watching!

Piglets where in just panel wire fencing. I took one panel away and started them I learn about electric fence. With the rope like fence and easy to move fence posts makes creating new areas easier, but does take some planning with making electric and how to plan adding or taking away areas. This year I have girls, named them Thelma and Louise.

This doe has stuffed her mouth with hay while prepping her Nestbox for her litter coming within days.

This New Zealand doe is getting ready for the birth of her first litter of kits. The does will grab lots of material, this case straw, in their mouth to prep the area the babies will crawl into once born. Once or sometimes twice a day the mom will feed them after the kits are born. Some mom's will pack a whole lot more hay in their mouth then you just saw here. Some does will make nests early and others sometimes wait till the day of birth.

Finally weather warmer after the cold streak and I was working cleaning in the rabbitry. Chickens out enjoying weather and scratching in the rabbitry. My dog had a little issue with a "bully" hen from the new chicks I showed videos of previously this last fall.

I just made new wooden stamps to stamp my bars of soap. Showing four of the six stamps I made over this past week in spare time. Will clean up the stamps a little more to remove the pen ink from the wooden surface and finesse some details I might see yet and clean up the side edge of the stamp block. I found it hard to press the stamp in while recording this video with my other hand.

Gem is my oldest doe. She not producing big litters, but she can be an excellent foster mom, which is one reason I keep her. These two are growing fast since there is only two of them so there is plenty of milk from Gem. The other doe I bred at same times had hers for awhile that I thought for sure Gem didn't rebred, but she did! It is colder temperatures now so my breeding program is reduced as it harder on babies during the winter months. I do have some hacks like covering cage with a light weight rug to allow air in through the bottom of cage with creating a barrier from the cold that helps. But I only have a few rugs to use until I can obtain more.

New Zealand rabbit, Chai, had 8 kits born.

Nights will be warmer for now in Wisconsin, so the chicks are moved into the coop early morning. (Sun rising yet, so a little dark in the coop for this video.). They finally get more room! In case you see shredded paper, that is because I reuse my shredded paper in the chicken nest boxes for the eggs. When cleaned out with the chicken poop it easily composts together. Another way to reuse shredded paper. Avoid paper with plastic or waxy surfaces or look on the web for more information on how to reuse items like shredded paper that can help amend your soil.

Opened up the last area available to to the pig by moving the wire to the top of the fence posts. One pig went in the new area and stuffed a bunch of grass in his mouth to take to their laying spot for bedding. Fun to watch this natural instinct.

First viewing of babies (New Zealand kits) of a first time mama rabbit. She birthed 6 and 4 survived. In a couple days these little pinkies will turn white as their fur starts growing in. The get out of here statement is telling a cat to go away that was curious too.

An update on progress of the pigs rutting up a new area given that has buckthorn stumps and roots I seek to get uprooted. If a person wants faster progress than this then confining to just that area would speed up the progress. But I choose to let them work at it while having a large fenced area to enjoy besides this along the wood-line.

Brown and Black chicks are getting bigger! Eating and drinking a lot more. Looking at one more week in this space at the least and get them in the coop for more room to move. Right now weather is very cold so I have to keep them in this space to keep warm.

Opened a new section for the pigs to rut and help control the buckthorn by uprooting the stumps from cutting down the buckthorn. They have been in this less than 24 hours when this video was recorded.

This afternoon got to catch this little clip of one on the babies (kit) resting on Mama's back.

Rooster RJ and younger chickens scratching thru the rabbit manure I cleaned out of the rabbitry. Rabbit manure is high in nitrogen and a cold fertilizer, meaning it won't burn the plants with too much fertilizer. Pigs are in the background and I give a little glance to see the fall leaves.

Chicks I ordered came in this week. These will replace my older hens as the older ones are laying less each year. Hatching out this year didn't work out as planned so just bought some new ones.

As I continued petting a pig, the two others look into the camera. So did they know they were being recorded?

I like having happy and friendly pigs. 3 out of the 4 roll over to get their tummies rubbed. These boys push up against me really hard before going down on their side. After they get their time from me, they do relax and walk around more, but not until they get their attention time in. (I have had previous pigs roll over for belly rubs in the past years and those didn't almost push me over like this year's boys.)

Back in the spring of 2020 my pigs enjoyed the water hose dancing and playing in the water.

Pigs are enjoying their evening meal. Their names are Chewy, Hewy, Dewy, and Louie. Raised from piglets from mid-March and will keep until it gets cold enough with our first snow.

Back in April 2020 pigs enjoy water hose for the first time.