Instagram’s cross-poster isn’t working
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Instagram’s cross-poster isn’t working apparently? Here’s a thing I posted today. BABY PIGGIES.
So the first lil chunk is just after we showed up, with the truck and the tractor, to move their pig house and movable electric fence. I took some video, and you can see my sister is starting to move their feeder trough, and some of the piglets climb in it, and generally it’s just an adorable free-for-all, right?
So I shoved my phone back in my pocket and we unfastened the fence to move it, trusting that, as usual, the big sows would follow the feeder, and the piglets would run around but settle down and go after their mothers.
THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. First Red, then Cookies (the two sows) just… went the wrong direction, and set off as if they were on some sort of mission, and the whirling cloud of piglets kind of scattered to the winds. I ran around desperately yanking up flexi-net, then helped the girl with the tractor move the pig house while there were no piggies in the way (it’s very heavy; it had to be dragged by the biggest tractor on the farm); meanwhile my sister chased the sows with the feed bucket and managed to lure them back toward the right spot, but then we couldn’t get the flexi-net up fast enough and the sows kept trying to leave and there was a lot of shouting. The sows are both about full-grown, maybe 3-400 lbs each, and they’re generally good-natured but they have very sharp teeth and are impossible to force to do anything they don’t want to. I have precisely 1 pig experience before this: yesterday, we moved the boar, Earl, who is a little smaller than the sows but not much, and he also does not do anything he does not want to do.
Anyway. I discovered that piglets can outrun me in tall tall grass. My sister is not normally in charge of the livestock; she did a lot of screaming. The other girl, one of their interns, was fairly unworried but had to do a lot of running around. Also, piglets can and will crawl through flexi-net, because they’re not afraid of it the way grown pigs are. (It’s usually electrified, but not powerfully-so.)
OH MY GOSH those tiny cute pigs are TOTAL JERKS. It was exhausting. But we succeeded. So that was the finale of the video: the aftermath, with the pigs blissfully tunneling in the tall grass, and the piglets mostly invisible because of it.
So enjoy the video; their little ears flap when they run and it’s goddamned adorable, but they’re assholes so I don’t feel quite so terrible about eating them.
Also I swear that in person I actually have a reasonably pleasant voice. I sound like a lunatic in this video but that’s justified. If you were there watching their little piggy ears flap you’d sound like that too. OH MY GOD.
Instagram’s cross-poster isn’t working apparently? Here’s a thing I posted today. BABY PIGGIES.
So the first lil chunk is just after we showed up, with the truck and the tractor, to move their pig house and movable electric fence. I took some video, and you can see my sister is starting to move their feeder trough, and some of the piglets climb in it, and generally it’s just an adorable free-for-all, right?
So I shoved my phone back in my pocket and we unfastened the fence to move it, trusting that, as usual, the big sows would follow the feeder, and the piglets would run around but settle down and go after their mothers.
THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. First Red, then Cookies (the two sows) just… went the wrong direction, and set off as if they were on some sort of mission, and the whirling cloud of piglets kind of scattered to the winds. I ran around desperately yanking up flexi-net, then helped the girl with the tractor move the pig house while there were no piggies in the way (it’s very heavy; it had to be dragged by the biggest tractor on the farm); meanwhile my sister chased the sows with the feed bucket and managed to lure them back toward the right spot, but then we couldn’t get the flexi-net up fast enough and the sows kept trying to leave and there was a lot of shouting. The sows are both about full-grown, maybe 3-400 lbs each, and they’re generally good-natured but they have very sharp teeth and are impossible to force to do anything they don’t want to. I have precisely 1 pig experience before this: yesterday, we moved the boar, Earl, who is a little smaller than the sows but not much, and he also does not do anything he does not want to do.
Anyway. I discovered that piglets can outrun me in tall tall grass. My sister is not normally in charge of the livestock; she did a lot of screaming. The other girl, one of their interns, was fairly unworried but had to do a lot of running around. Also, piglets can and will crawl through flexi-net, because they’re not afraid of it the way grown pigs are. (It’s usually electrified, but not powerfully-so.)
OH MY GOSH those tiny cute pigs are TOTAL JERKS. It was exhausting. But we succeeded. So that was the finale of the video: the aftermath, with the pigs blissfully tunneling in the tall grass, and the piglets mostly invisible because of it.
So enjoy the video; their little ears flap when they run and it’s goddamned adorable, but they’re assholes so I don’t feel quite so terrible about eating them.
Also I swear that in person I actually have a reasonably pleasant voice. I sound like a lunatic in this video but that’s justified. If you were there watching their little piggy ears flap you’d sound like that too. OH MY GOD.
