Picked Saskatoons today. Started another batch of wine. Got alot done on the magazine stuff and I am FINALLY all caught up. Two more stores picked up the magazine and I am pretty much out of the Summer issue. More will have to be printed so I think that is what I will be doing on Friday.
I went up to see where my bf had disappeared to this afternoon and he was up talking to his piggies. I went up there to take pictures of the animals to post here later and I went in with the pigs to take their pictures without the chain link in the way.
Going from hating me, the pigs now are too happy to see me. They keptgetting too close and all I could take a picture of was a nose or an eyeball. I asked my bf to come in and scratch them so they would go see him and leave me and my shoes alone, since they keep stuffing their noses under my shoes and knock me off balance. My bf started laughing and said they did like me now.
Yes, we will eat these guys coming this Fall, but like I have said before, we treat our animals, even the butcher animals, very well while they are here. My bf was playing with the pigs.. just as you would start playing with a dog, you evidently can do that with piggies as well. No.. none of them have names.. not even names like "Porkchop", etc. We were scratching them and even the ones who did not let me pet them before, now came up to me. One piggy forgot how to stand on her right side and lifted BOTH the front and the rear feet up on the right side (yes, same side) as evidently the scratching felt just too good. Sooo.. in order to have a 3-point system so it did not fall over on its side like the other one did for me, it put its snout on the ground to keep from falling over. Yep, it was bracing itself with its nose. (they are so low to the ground, it is hard to tell which gender which one is, so I am saying 'it').
We stayed in the pig pen for awhile, just playing and petting them and listening to them talk to us. Yes they are muddy, but not what I would call dirty. "Kid" comes in from playing and he is much muddier most of the time..Then my bf quit scratching one and it came up behind him and started to scratch himself on the back of my bf's legs. I have no idea what the deal with my tennis shoes is, but all of them just love to try to push them around or get under them with their snouts. They do not do this to anyone else's shoes
..... the hawks are back. A pair I think. So I sat out in the treeline between the triangle of the pigs, the chickens and the milkgoat. The turkeys were out again and there "Charlie" the outdoor cat and me were sitting up in the folding chair between everyone Guarding. I am glad all my animals seem to be happy. It is pretty hard when you own 71 of them. Yep, 71 animals until Fall.The chickens are happy doing their chicken things out in the chicken yard. The roosters actually do not start sparring with each other. One gets a little carried away, struts his stuff, runs around in a circle and then runs at another rooster around the same size. If he meets up with a littler one.. the bigger one backs off. Only when they are pretty evenly matched do they stop and stare at each other until one challenges the other. Nothing serious. But I think I will be glad to get rid of 14 or so roosters. I took some pictures of them today as well.
The turkeys, as they are LOUDMOUTHS, saying PIP, PIP, PIP, they call in all the predators for about 100 miles around. SO they are not being let out unsupervised until I get the overhead netting put up, which will be in a month or so, certainly by next summer. Well.. maybe sooner than later. I am not sure I want to babysit turkeys for hours a day for another three months.But I spend a couple good 3-4 hours up there today after getting other stuff done. I have not been able to do that for a long time, but it really is a great way to make sure all your animals are healthy and happy. Plus it is so peaceful.
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