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Yeah!! Sorry about Pinky, but I'm glad Delilah got through it well.

Congratulations, Mama and gramma Flavapor!!!

Thanks TB.

Pinky is getting so pushy anyways, its time for him to go. He trys to take Delilahs food even though they both get fed, he runs from pile to pile trying to eat it all.

She is a slow eater and well, he is a pig

Friends that have raised pigs have told me that once that get to that kind of size or bigger, they get really hard to handle. Sounds like he's having a growing spurt, but then, pigs will be pigs!

I think its true TB.

He is more pushy and when I am over there alone it worries me so I don't go alone anymore. He is more aggressive. He used to just follow me to the pen for food, now he nudges me hard on the leg to get at the bucket of food.

They are so damn fast for big fat critters too!

One of our neighbors up the road, has had them for several years. I think their kids are raising them for FFA or 4-H. You're right, they're really fast, when they want to be. The ones they had last year were ginormous! I'd never seen them that big.

Have you gotten to go see your new digs yet or are you going sight unseen?

WOW Flava! 7 piglets!

Im not so sure I am the winner! LOL My original guess was Labor Day! Did I come the closest?

I bet those piglets are so cute!

yes you did, the rest of us are late sept and oct, come get one, you can have pick of the litter. Big bear needs a playmate

Dont tempt me! LOL!

That is gonna be lots of fun watching them grow!

I guessed Aug. 24th, but got the wrong year.

Congrats gramma. Maybe we'll see some piggy pics soon!

I just uploaded one, waiting for mod approval

so she had them under an oak tree, so we locked pinky in the pen but I think they should be in the pen. If we pick up the piglets will mama still feed them?

The black one is way off to the side (right), its either the runt or stupid, cant find the tit
hope it survives

Three look like pinky and 3 Delilah, especially the one with the caramel and white, that's her coloring, and then theres the black one, don't know where that one came from

gonna post a baby and adult pic of pinky later, I guess he wasn't very old when we got him cause hes not much bigger than these guys are

Wow Flava......thanks for sharing this! That is precious! I cant beleive how big they are for just being born!

Hoping the black one latches on soon!!!!!

Pete said he finally found it, so I think all will be well. I cant believe how large they are either. I also didn't know they would be up walking around. I have only ever seen kittens and puppies day old.

They are guinea pig sized but taller, probably weigh about a pound

Funny...that is what I was expecting to see! I was imagining to see them like little puppies....

Glad to hear he found the teet!!!!

Sorry, had to go to the hospital to get my medical records. It's looking like I'll be the only one that hasn't seen it. All I know is it's 3 bdrm/2 bath with a garage that's kind of rough and the back yard has no grass. That part's ok, no one has grass. The water's salty and it kills the grass. The only other thing I know is it's been totally remodeled with new everything. We'll have to get another washer/dryer, though. I don't think there are any in the house. I hate leaving my new washer, but it looks like son is getting the job he really wanted after all. He'll be working at one of the local tv stations as master control operator. I'm not totally sure what that is, but it's something about cueing commercials and such. It's a 12 hour shift, so he won't have time to go to the Laundromat. All kinds of changes lately!

The piglets are really cute and I'm glad the black one started to feed. Are their eyes open when they're born? It's been way too long since I've seen any.

Yes TB eyes open and walking around

Wise plan.

Yup, they can move like a flash, kind of scary.

But I never liked pigs that much anyway, which worked out well in the long run as I really like ham, bacon and sausage and I never have had a qualm about eating them.

Thanks for posting! They are so cute!

My grandpa always had a few hogs when I was a child, and sometime there was a runt in the litter. He would take it to my grandma to bring up, and she would keep it in a box behind the wood range where it was warm, and feed it from a bottle. When you went into the house you always knew grandma had a piglet, because of that sweetish smell they have.

Well, Pinky is going tomorrow. He isn't happy to be locked in the cage anyways, he is soooo pissed about that. Looks like he would bite if he could get to us. He is hawking us.

I had to go over and put a piece of plywood against the fence and put hay to enclose it on one side and the floor cause it rained and got cold and the piglets have to stay warm.

After tomorrow we can move them them to the pen that has a covered area. Here is the when we got him and when we got rid of him pics.

He doesn't look that big in the pic but hes about 300lbs.

When I see the pic of when we got him it makes me wonder just how old he was. He isn't that much larger than the newborns.

Waterlily

I love me some porkchops!! Bacon too and pretty much anything pork

Yum!!

Pork roast with potatoes and carrots

Spare ribs cooked with sauerkraut

German sausage with new potatoes.....

Sounds like a good time to get new kitchen stuff. Am I the only crazy one that gets excited over new skillets and knives?

The babies came much earlier than we all guessed! They are so stinking cute!

SO
I get excited over pretty much anything kitchen! I have enough crap to outfit all three of my kids kitchens and cant part with any of it. Special pots and bowls for different meals that I make.

I am a kitchen hoarder