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Our County Agent and his family came over this morning, and we tagged all our 4-H kid's pigs, 2 for an FFA member, and weighed them all...It's a lot easier to tag them when they're contained in the scale, than it is to try to chase them down and do it!
So, here's some pics of that:
Tag # 6456 (notch 1-2) weighed in at a whoppin 144# (this is the long bacon pig)
Tag # 6457 (notch1-1) weighed in at 126# (this is the big one, that I thought would easily outweigh the other two)
Tag # 6458 (notch1-4) weighed 120# (She went in backwards, so if you look closely, you can see her new lavender ear tag shining) That's Al's arm on the bottom, he was holding the gate up where they knocked it off the hinges. Of all the ones we tagged this morning, these 3 were by far, the hardest. I'd heard that Durocs are really stubborn, and now I believe it!!!!!!!
After we got the rest of the 9 pigs done, we came back, got some cow feed and went to tend Tillie, Pepper & Lumpy. Here's Al, feeding them:
We were messin around, waiting for the trough to finish filling, so I asked Al if he had a rope in his pickup......he looked at me like I'd grown another head or something (like I expected a real cowboy to be without a rope......lol) and said of course. I told him, get it and let's see if we can catch Tillerie, maybe take her and put her in with the bull this afternoon. So, he went and got it, I put the feed bucket on the ground, and he put the loop around it, and I eased her over there to it. When she stuck her head in to get some feed, he got the loop over it, and she threw a huge fit for about 2 seconds. I got on the rope with him, and we dallied it to the ball on his pickup bumper, then around the bumper up to the headache rack. While he held the end, I eased down the rope and started messing with Tillie.....scratching her head (she loves that) and just petting and talking sweet to her.........she didn't hardly bat an eye the whole time. So, I went and took the end of the rope, and told Al to go mess with her.......he was a little less anxious to do it than I was, but it wasn't no time at all, till he was messing all over her, hind legs, even walked around behind her, and she never offered to kick or anything (her mother would've eaten his lunch by that time, when she was that age). Pretty soon, he was scratching her on the belly, and messing with her front feet.......and she just stood there, taking it all in, and loving every minute of it.
When the trough got full, he turned her loose, and told her next time he'd bring her halter, and we'd come to the house. I think he's changed his mind about taking the li'l darlin to the Fair!!!!!!! YIPPEE!!!!!!! I think she'll do great over there......and if she does well enough, he can sell 2 pigs at the auction, instead of just one......
So, here are a few pics of him messing with Tillie.
Just with the loop around her neck, notice all the slack, she wasn't pulling back at all!
Moving the honda around under her chin, so he could put a nose loop on her.
Putting the nose loop on, Tillie wasn't too sure about that at first, it's been a while since she had one (she was 10 days old at the time)
She soon settled down, and enjoyed the attention once again. Guess my camera is doing strange things again, this one is kinda squatted. Neither of them are as short as they look........... :roll:
Giving her pats on the belly, she kinda liked that, too. She must have had an itch.........
Not bad for bein out in the pasture......just think how well she'll do here at home, in the corral! oh yea!!!!!!!!!!!