so yesterday, I had to get them out of the barn, the pen isn't very pig and I really hate keeping them so cramped, I tried looking for a 5 foot gate to go across the doorway in the front that way they can have the whole barn, but they only make 4 and 6 foot gates, so today my buddy is going to stop by with his ram set and we are going to shoot some two by fours into the cement pad and build a partition wall down the middle and gate it off
so we started clearing out the jungle along the fence
we moved the tape up about the same level they had on the farm
I was going to run a separate fence charger, but I was looking at the pigs fence and the solar charge is only running 30 feet of electric tape, so I figured we would just piggy back off of the pigs charger, so I ran down to the farm store and grabbed a jumper
and let them loose
they quickly learned to respect the white tape, good thing they were trained on it at the farm
and my wife spent the afternoon with her buddies
we had to take his trailer back because we had lost part of the back gate on ours on the drive out there, so he let us use his
@groinkick goats!
they also had a pretty cool firepit made out of granite pieces
so today we are working on getting the barn organized and getting a source for hay
lol, I almost forgot, so after we hooked up the electric, my BIL and I got into a discussion how we're going to test it, he told me to touch it, I aint going to touch it
quit being a baby he said, you do it then I replied
fine he said, so he goes and touches it
nothing
I told him he had to hold it, it pulses every 3 seconds
it fricking knocked him on his knees, the s20 is a lot more powerful than the s17 we use to have, he is now afraid of the electric fence as well
so we knocked out the gate yesterday, it was just to cramped for them
we figured we would let them have the whole corner
so we proceeded to build a little stub wall
and drilled out for the gate pins
and mounted the gate and the hay rack
this little bucket worked out perfect for the space and water for them
much better
tip number 2, put a little radio in the barn, it helps keep them calm, they prefer one direction and death metal
got 50 bales of hay being delivered today,up in the loft they go
well, they have calmed down a lot, hardly hear a peep from them, they had been just hanging out in the barn, hardly going outside at all, so I let the pigs out of their pen and the dexters wandered down to look at them
I left them alone for a couple hours and went down to check on them
yo!
they almost gave me a heart attack
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Hessian3 Nov ’12
How are these guys doing? I went to the county 4H fair this weekend with the family.
Unfortunately, no Dexters in the cow section
The wife did catch a glimpse of a cuddly newborn baby goat though, I think she was in love!
My son spent the day asking everyone if they knew where Buttercup was.
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