They're here finally and the day around the farm.

We finally got our two little gilt piglets.  They are so cute.  I was suppose to have picked them up last week but ended up at the ER the night before and admitted to the hospital for appendix surgery.  So, I was a week later getting them.   Thursday evening got a little crazy, I had to have my daughter run me into town to meet up with the farmer I had purchased them from  and hubby stayed home to lasso  a little heifer calf for a guy who was buying her from us.   Yeah, as soon as farmer hubby, lassoed  the little heifer calf, she took off and dragged him down the hill.   So, he did a little grass skiing.  Wish I could have been there to seen that.  He is pretty good and sore from it.  At least, he was prepared and expecting her to do that.  They got her loaded up and away she went.  She was a cute little heifer.  I had thought about keeping her and making a milk cow out of her but  she was a Guernsey/Dexter cross and I say, she will make some one a good milk cow, but we have a big ole angus bull, and didn't want to take a chance of him breeding her.   She looked like she was going to make a small cow.  But now, I can start milking old Blossom, the little heifers mom.

Back to the little piggies, they are so cute and tiny.   They are around 7 weeks old.   We have them up in our barn, until they get a little bigger and a better lot fixed for them.   The little gals had some lice on them when I picked them up, I have really never had to deal with lice on animals, but they do get them.  So, I will be giving them a good dusting of Diatomaceous earth and see if that helps, then move them to a different stall and use the diatomaceous earth in the stall they are in.   If that doesn't work,  I will have to come up with something else.  Catching them is going to be the fun part.  I really haven't a chance to mess with them a lot since I got them.  Farmer hubby, my dad and son are going to the drag races today, so I should have a little time to go down to the barn and start letting them get use to me today.

Farmer Hubby ran to town to check out one of our local farmers markets to see if any of our farmer friends has corn for sale today.   Our corn didn't do anything, so hopefully he can round up about 10 dz ears from someone so I can can corn today while they are gone.       Not much of a canning season from our garden this year, but maybe next year will be better.

The little girls. 

The little heifer calf we sold.