Village Squire, 1976-10, Page 13dismay that I had only one night of easy feeding. At tive-thirty
p.m., every last sow was snorting at the door before I ever
entered the barn.
Pigs have lots of smarts when a comes to food, but I've also
seem them do some very curious'things which are inconsistent
with the idea of a stupid pig. I've seen a sow exhibit joy in the
form of exuberant capers about the pen after she has been thrown
some straw. Some sows are leapers. They jump up and place
their forefeet on the partition to await their food. I wait until they
are down before I feed them but this trick doesn't always work.
work.
Some pigs seem to be more aggressive than others. Some are
placid. I've learned. that you have to be on your toes to control
them. But then, I'm not saying anything that pigs farmers don't
already know. They know they have to be adroit managers of
pig's personalities.
Living with pigs (I say living with them because some days
their smell pervades the atmosphere) has really changed my life.
My definition of frustration has become the harassed, hot
feeling one has after trying to herd pigs anywhere, after trying to
convince them that they can't really go through that little hole
(and the smaller the better as far as they are concerned) and that
'they really do know where the gate is.
It has provided me with a source of chuckles because there is
nothing funnier than watching a nursing sow trying to run with
her big bags flopping back and forth.
Who else's husband awakens everyone. at two a.m. to
announce the safe delivery of fifteen healthy newborns? You
know you have a real friend when you go visiting with a truck that
hasn't been cleaned since the last haul and does she hold her
nose and say, "Yuck?" No she does not. She says, "Please,
please, will you shovel it on my flower beds?"
I can now go down to the barn for kicks and size up a fine pig.
Estimate the nice, lean chops and fantasize, trying not to slobber
as I gaze into the pen, about pork chops broiled in onions to a
savoury, brown finish, smothered in spicy tomato sauce and
mushrooms ... the vision goes on and on as I rush up to the house
for the frying pan.
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