Pigs

I never thought I’d love pigs. They are nice enough, I guess, and supposed to be as smart as dogs, but I didn’t think they would end up being a farm animal that brought me much joy.

I was wrong.

Pigs are an unexpected delight. They can be absolutely maddening when they shove through the bottom of fences, or trip me repeatedly as I’m carrying a bucket of food through the lot of them. They can also be ridiculously loud, especially at night when my neighbors are asleep, as we go out do a final bed check. The only animal that competes with them on the noise front is Sylphrena, the jenny donkey.

However, they have such hilarious personalities, you can’t help but fall in love with them. They will always always get up to greet you at the gate. They pile together in an adorable dog pile of pigs. One thing I never knew about pigs is that they love belly rubs. Even our big boar will lay down and roll over to show us his belly for a good scratch.

At the moment, we have 6 pigs, called Kune Kunes. They are a mini pig breed, and do better on pasture than most others. Though they grow slower than a typical market hog, they are friendlier, don’t root as much, and don’t get as big.

Our sow is Molly Julia (Weasley) and our boar is Arthur Weasley. We also have their first set of piglets. Of those, we are planning to keep a female we call Lady Trotters. The biggest piglet is Porkchop, and the others are unnamed (they often get called Bacon, Schnitzel, and the like). The unnamed ones look very similar, so we mix them up. The piglets were all born on the farm, mere days after our son Luke. You ought to hear them all chatting at each other throughout the day. Sometimes they sound like teenagers arguing with their parents, but they still all end up in a big pig pile at the end of the day.

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