KUNEKUNE PIGLETS ARE ADORABLE!

It has been a week since our first KuneKune farrowing and we are learning new things every day! Clover is doing very well as a mother, but she did accidentally lay on a baby and it did not survive. Now we have 7 piglets from the original 8 that survived birth. It's only a couple of weeks until we show the turkeys at the fair and the toms are strutting their stuff. I get to introduce each individual piglet to you! My boar tried to ruin the drain that makes his wallow. A storm came through and downed some trees that have been weakened by goats eating their bark. One may have caused damage on a fence line. I feed the tulip tree leaves from the downed trees to the goats.
Every day my family and I are learning what it means to run a hobby farm. We started with chickens then added myotonic, or fainting, goats, and eventually kunekune (kune kune) pigs. Throw in some Guinea fowl and turkeys and cats and dogs with a creek and tons of wildlife and you start to get an idea of what our hobby farm is like. Hobby farming is time consuming and hard, but rewarding and fulfilling. There are daily chores that never stop. The animals need to be fed and watered. Pastures and pens need to be fenced and built. Goats and pigs need to be rotated in their pastures to give them fresh food and to rejuvenate the land. Food is planted and grown for the animals. Medicines are given orally and injected to prevent and cure sickness and combat parasites. Hooves need to be trimmed. Babies need to be raised. At any given time we have gilts, sows, boars, piglets, bucks, does, kids, chicks, chickens, keets, guineas, etc. that need our attention, love and care. Follow along and we’ll learn and grow on this adventure together!

[@edwardkornuszko4083]

Thank you

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

You have cute little potbelly pigs 🐖 and turkeys and goats and chickens 🐔 so cute animals

[@williamblake7386]

Isn't it nice that they are so colorful?

[@rsftalesofahobbyfarmer]

Yes, what a variety!