Pigs & Poultry!
These may seem like an unlikely combination, they actually are a lot alike!

We raise 2-3 piglets a year for the freezer, usually in the fall or winter (to prevent heat stress). The pigs have their own paddock/pasture area to graze in as well as their choice of several shelters. Pigs are extremely smart! Their antics are enjoyable until they reach 300 pounds or so. At that time they become mischevious and extremely destructive with their rooting, then off to the butcher they go. We feed them a non-medicated feed, garden scraps, kitchen scraps, milk, clabber and failed cheese or yogurt experiments.
 
New (Fall 2007) piglets!!!
This is Babe and Wilbur "Willie". They are Yorkshire crosses, and came from an organic, pasture raised farm in La Grange. They weighed approx 25 lbs on arrival, and will be with us until they weigh 300 lbs.



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Pork Chop, Honey Ham and Sugar Pig Spring 2006


Ebony and Ivory Spring 2007


The hens used to be free range until area dogs, hawks and coyotes became a problem. Now they have an indoor-outdoor pen so they have free range of their own covered area. We have laying hens at present, no meat birds. Our hens lay brown, white and green eggs. They are fed greens, non-medicated feed, whatever bugs they catch, garden scraps, kitchen scraps and clabber. Being omnivores they will eat almost anything (they don't like orange rind or radishes for some reason!)
The ducks are separated from the hens so they will have full access to the pond;
 at a cost--we have lost a duck, most likey a dog or coyote attack.