Bringing Home The Bacon...

Or pigs to become bacon!

This is where I would like to create a paddock for the pigs

Now that we know where we would like to purchase the pigs, we have to get an area ready for them!

We already have invested in the Pig QuikFence Starter kit which, like the poultry netting includes the solar energizer and corner posts. Both kits were purchased from Premier 1 Supplies. We really like how easy the fencing is to move to other parts of our field/garden/yard. I made a minor mistake when I got the 160' netting for the chickens though - I ended up ordering the single spike...ooops. Oh well, it works just as well and we are able to give the girls and dudes a lot of space to forage. The pig netting is 100' and we'll move them maybe on the same schedule as the chickens, which is once a month, we'll see though. We can't be sure until we have them and see how much work they can do in a month. 

We'll need to put together some sort of shelter for them too. That might be as easy as a small hoop house. Although, I would like to have something a little more substantial for them, like a 3 sided shelter - maybe something that we can put a couple of wheels on to make moving it easier. Especially if we could hook it up to the lawn tractor.

Something like this could work for a little while

This is a bit fancy, but I like the idea of it

There are so many possibilities for our little hobby farm. A couple of weeks ago we put together a vision board to keep us motivated. AND to keep us looking forward and not lamenting that we didn't start this dream sooner. Now that Tom is semi-retired working part-time, he can take care of the chores during the winter months.  When spring and summer come around again I'll be out there messing with the chickens and the two hooligans everyday! It's possible that in 3 years or so I'll leave my job and we'll do this farm thing full time. It's a plan that I want to stick to!

Oh yeah...we got vision!