Now that it has been awhile, I think it's safe to share 😂. Some of you know that we prepared for weeks for the arrival of our berkshire piglets. We did extensive research, Tom rebuilt the most amazing pen equipped with an automatic waterer. We were pumped but most importantly...we were ready...until we realized, that we weren't!
We brought the piggies home in a dog crate that was plenty big enough for both of them. We backed the van up to the new pig pen and Tom & I carried the dog crate into the pen and shut the gate. Just as I went to open the dog crate, Tom mentions that they're smaller than he expected and asked if I thought they would be able to pop through the hog panel.
It was too late, they were released and within 30 seconds those little balls of cuteness with their extreme smarts & ninja like feet popped right through the holes of the hog fencing and straight into the woods...which back up to more woods, which back up to more woods...you get the picture.
Immediately, Tom and I venture through the thorns and fallen limbs to try to catch them but our efforts proved that they were smarter and quicker than we were. I was sure it was over, we had lost them for good and sulked all over this place.
We reinforced the pig pen and sprinkled food all in hoping that they would somehow remember their way back and be compliant little children.
About an hour later, Tom called me outside to see that they did in fact come back! They were happily eating the food we sprinkled at the entrance of the pen but were smart enough not to go all the way in LOL. As I inched closer, hoping to catch them off guard and have them run in...they caught on and took off again to the woods.
By this time, it was dark out and they're dark colored so we decided to put more food out and call in a night. THOSE BOOGERS GALLIVANTED ALL NIGHT THROUGH THE WOODS. When we woke the next morning, they had not returned and I feared the worst.
A couple of hours into the morning and they were back! No doubt, completely toying with us and purposefully making us squirm. This time, I was prepared! I sprinkled some sugary cereal inside their pen and waited...hiding behind their 55 gallon waterer. It worked...they crept in cautiously, oblivious to my presence. They could not resist those sweet and colorful fruit loops! Once they were in further, I used my ninja-like reflexes and slammed the gate! But, that was only the first part...we still had to get them into the enclosure we built! Tom leapt into the pen channeling Carl Lewis and ran circles around them until he successfully got both in the stall! We were a great team 😂
After all that, all four of us (me, Tom, Bonnie & Clyde) had a wonderful night's sleep!
So the moral of the story kids is 1. your farm animals will live up to their names, so be careful in what you choose and 2. no matter how prepared you are...chances are, you're not.
It is clear that Tom and I did not grow up around this, it doesn't come natural but it is so so fun!
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