Red wattles mamas and babies being set free in the paddock

We took the mamas and their new borns into the barn to get them through the freeze. Freeze after freeze has hit us and now the barn is a destroyed muddy mess. The weather seems to be going in the right direction. And now the piglets are old enough to get by on their own in the cold. So out they go!

[@djjammindave]

COMMON BIG MOMA...AND THE LADY LOOKS BACK AT HIM....LOL

[@pameladorris4329]

Mitch pig

[@lpg12338]

Funny little piggies. 🐖

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ماشاءالله تبارك الرحمن

[@ManojBuragohain]

Nice Pig🐷👌, #manojburagohain

[@yvettecharron9033]

Thank you for raising your pigs humanely and on pasture !!

[@ขวัญฤดี-จ1ษ]

So good

[@russellebnet6715]

bacon

[@cosmindavid4310]

Is not just meat is also clever animal

[@HeoVN]

👍💝🐖💝👍

[@johnnyguerra2419]

Felicitaciones para esa dama trabajadora Saludos desde Panamá chiriqui

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[@estherford8209]

Fun to see these pigs again! About 25 years ago we bought our first ones. Had them for quite a while till we got out of pigs. They were used in a crossbreeding program but were never fully appreciated. Had just had a conversation a few weeks ago that maybe we should get a few to raise as free range just for our kids and our selves. As a point of interest my husband Stan spent many hours visiting by phone with the fellow from Texas who re-introduced them. Can't recall his name-he is gone now. But he sure had stories to tell and was so happy to share them. We are in central Alberta here in Canada

[@ambersantos2584]

Yes

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Ahmed kaya

[@AntonyMB]

They really graze, it's like watching cattle 😲🙂

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[@bryanp2598]

God are those mamas thin!!!!! Feed them much more please!!! Neglect. They cant survive on grass chesp scate.

[@HmongGuitarPlayer]

Bryan P they don’t need to be fat nowadays. Keep them lean and the meat is much better. Back in the old days you need fat pigs because you need the lards for cooking but today we got vegetables oils and much more.

[@cdjhyoung]

That's a normal build for a sow that is just finishing up nursing her litter. If you let a sow gain too much weight, she becomes unmanageable to handle safely. I have real concerns about that woman getting between a nursing sow and her squealing piglet: sows are VERY protective of their litters, and will charge quickly if they believe their young are in danger. You don't want to be in a position like that unless you have an escape route or a gate to hold off the charging pig.

[@alvexok5523]

@@cdjhyoung very true. Mother pigs love their piglets dearly. When a mother pig hears one of her piglets squeal for even a second, she'll stop whatever she's doing and try to see what's going on. Mother pigs grunt alot while nursing her piglets, which means she's very very happy, she's doing for her dear piglets who she loves so much what nature intended. With pigs in general, grunting means happy. Lots of grunting means lots of pleasure. See the Dodo video where the black and white mother pig is grunting so fast the moment she sees her 3 piglets again after being temporarily seperated from them during a move to a new sanctuary. It's heartmelting. I love seeing happy pigs. I guess that's because of how many pigs in this world are so sadly being abused and tortured on factory farms and brutally killed in slaughterhouses. That terrible hell is all happening to the same sentient beings who are naturally so lovable, joyful, and affectionate when they're somewhere where they're not being frightened away from their natural good nature. These wonderful beings deserve to be in sanctuaries

[@cdjhyoung]

@@alvexok5523 You are displaying an opinion based on your empathy directed toward pigs. But 'abused' and 'tortured' are really inaccurate statements to ably to how pigs are raised for meat in a commercial operation. I know you won't agree, but the worse of the early confinement operations of the late 1950's are gone. The animals today have more room and the living conditions are much cleaner than first used. You object to animals being killed for meat. Many people share your conviction. But you would have to agree that no animal has ever lived that didn't eventually die. Animals living in the the wild face many grizzly forms of death, from infant mortality from starvation (or crushing if they are pigs) to being attacked and eaten by another species. The 'lucky' animals may have a longer life, but will eventually become enfeebled and die of disease, starvation or freezing to death. None of those options are pleasant. Humans harvesting animals for food isn't that far out of line with how animals will eventually meet their end if it happens 'naturally'. Animals are not tortured in the way they are killed for butchering. Few people wish to injury animals. The ones that do are psychopaths that have even greater problems. I'm not trying to change your mind, just trying to get you to tone down the verbiage you use to express your opinion on raising and harvesting animals for food. I raised pigs for a number of years as a commercial farmer. I've been beat up by those critters a number of times, even found myself in a situation one time that I thought would get me trampled to death by some pigs. They are as smart as dogs, smarter in some ways. They can also be pets: my grandmother kept a pig in her house as a pet - until the day it broke down the back door to join her in the back yard. But the life a pig leads is not one of endless torture. It is not deprived of its 'normal' life. Pigs in the wild, on average have a short, difficult life. It is not a very blissful one at all.

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[@TheValteralves]

Where the food ?