Pigs!

 I don't remember if I mentioned this.....

but we were hoping to buy some "weaners"

(piglets who have been weaned...)

but they were sold out for this round.

So they put us on the wait list for the November batch.

And then they called Kyle and said somebody

backed out and they have five weaners who are

ready if we would like to have them.

Cue Kyle doing what he does best.....

Building a quick 12 x 12 barn that will include

a small feed room and an L shaped run-in for the

pigs to eat and shelter from the weather.

Also fencing. So they have four 1/4 acre pastures

to rotate through.

(We will move them regularly and follow them up with

the hen house so the chickens can clean up after them,

keeping the fly population down...)

Also a trench to run water and electricity to the barn.

Thank goodness for the excavator!

That's LONG trench - 4 feet deep to avoid the frost line.

He was putting up plywood on the walls when I left.

(But it was SUPER windy today, so hopefully it went well...)

Tomorrow morning we are running into Hays to check

out the farmers markets in town.

WaKeeney's market isn't doing great.

And Hill City has switched to their fall schedule of

Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 (right after school since

the park they set up in is practically next door...)

Today Rod and I did butcher day Part 1.

(Which means set up...)

Got the restraining cone hooked up to the pole outside.

Got buckets set up.

Got cardboard on the floor under the table.

(But we might move the process outside, depends...)

It was nearly 100 outside today, so if I can butcher

inside that would be nice......

Anyhow.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to process 5 roosters.

More would be nice, but 5 is my goal. We have 11.

We'll see.

The guys are DEFINITELY ready.

The hens could go another week or so.

They are always a little smaller.

So.........

that's what this weekend is looking like!

Hope yours is fun.

(And as productive, but possibly less... icky.)