We got 4 cute little piglets. You may be asking how we keeps pigs and bees on our 1/4 acre urban farm? We don't, but we keep part of our farm at my parents. They have a acre and have joined Sommer Time Farm. A family that farms together, stays together. We share the responsibilities, costs, and benefits. One of the pigs is also my brother's and another is a family friend.
The night we got the cute little piggies was like a circus. I'm sure whoever saw us thought it was hilarious. I didn't know that pigs could squeeze through small holes and run for what seemed like hours.
My husband spent a couple weekends making a super nice pen for the pigs. It has a roof on one end and sides so the pigs can have protection from the elements. Then one weekend my parents and my family poured cement in the pen. Easy to keep clean. Well after all that work those little piggies didn't even care to stick around for a minute. As soon as we let them out of the carrier that we brought them home in, they squeezed through the squares of the wire and escaped. We chased those little piggies around the yard, through the neighbor's yard, across the street, and back again. Finally we caught all those piggies, and back into the carrier they went. And to town we went to buy smaller square fencing to wire around the whole pen. No more escaping for those piggies!
Now those cute little pigs, named bacon, sausage, ham, and porkchop, are growing and not escaping. We will chalk this into a funny memory and learning experience.
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