This Is Stinky Business! Literally!!

Fair time in our family brings pigs! We were very fortunate last year with the pigs we had and had no problems! This year due to high demands and low supply we ended up with some pigs I wouldn't have picked... Nonetheless my kiddo's are happy with them and we got what we got!

After our troubles with pigs 2 years ago I always get nervous when one of them appears to have an issue. Ever since we got these pigs the female has had a bit of the runny gumption's, we have been waiting it out thinking maybe it was due to feed changes. Last Saturday was the annual required pig tagging day for the kids to be able to show them at the county fair in August, so the Hubby and J took them and got them all fixed up. Hubby noticed that day that the female was starting to lose a bit of weight as well... I'm hoping this isn't the start to a bad year with them!

DD was our photographer for the event!



Our *runny* girl





We decided to shoot the pig with some antibiotics and deworm them all and hope that fixes the problem! After a couple of days her stool is looking a bit better and she is still eating, drinking, and playing so I hope that's a good sign!



Doesn't J look thrilled!









I could be dangerous with this stuff HA!!

Deworming Day!!! Fun...No...Sure!!!

I take great pride in keeping my horses, well any animal I have but on the largest level my horses parasite free.. So my method of doing that is rotational dewormings, I do a 3 way rotation with my herd. Oh and the steers too LOL!! So Memorial Day was the day!!

First up is Rita, she is such a good girl!!


Here's Lacy, she's not so good...Notice the tilt back of Hubby's hat...That's from Lacy throwing her head...



My yearling Ellie...She was not to sure about all this!!



She's now trying to decide what to do with it while my FIL holds her head up to make her swallow!!



EWW she says LOL!!



Now it's Bubba's turn!! He too is a yearling (actual July b-day) he did ok with this...



Ha now comes the fun!! Bob the steer, had a little wrestling match...



Hubby won!!



After that he took it really well :)



UH-OH now it's Midnight the steer, the untrained 1000 lb steer LOL!!!



He jumped through the water tank to get away, but Hubby got him anyway!!




He actually did fine with this...Silly steer...


This is the trail out to the pasture where the other 4 horses are!!



Looking back, that's where we came from



OH they see me!!!



They're saying, "mommy what are you doing out here"??



Hubby and FIL taking a breather while I get the horses up there



View out over the back part of the pasture..



There they go two by two LOL!!


Staying in a single file line, good kids LOL!!



Now it's Jet's turn!! He didn't really care for this...He should be used to it, he is 2 this year!!



Dandy's up, and did good!!



Here's Pete...What just happened here...He took it so fast I didn't even get a picture LOL!!



Freckles, she did pretty good. She also had to come up for some Hydro-Therapy because she injured her foot Sunday :(




We are missing 3 here so they did not get their's yet...They will get it when they get home!!