We’re getting a piglet, tomorrow… too!!!

Our neighbors are going to raise some winter piglets and asked us if we wanted one… so of course, we said SURE!!!  They are red Duroc pigs, an American heritage pig from the northeast.  A very lean hog with really tasty meat…   I would love to do a pair of feeder piglets in the spring, so this is really exciting… to learn and watch and see how these four little dudes grow!  We’ll be saving all our food scraps and garden waste as well as helping with good pig chow and bread trips to the outlet store.  It will take about 6 months to grow them up to about 200-250 pounds and when finished, they will dress out about 100-125 pounds of pork, hams, bacon and all that good stuff.  Should be interesting!!!  Can’t wait to see the little fella!

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the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

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