The pot bellied pigs have a new “friend” that is helping them keep warm. This raccoon showed up in the main barn on Wednesday night and we tried to move him out because we were worried about the chickens. It was a miserable night with high winds and snow, so we left him. Last night […]
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Joaquin’s Getting Stronger!
Joaquin is getting stronger everyday, and was able to enjoy the sunshine and warm temperatures today. This little guy came to us a week and a half ago with only one good leg, and this is him 12 days later. His acupuncture treatment went really well, and the vet also put him on a […]
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Joaquin Walking!
Joaquin tried walking today! The swelling is coming down on his front, left foot, and he is able to put some pressure on it. He drags his hind legs behind him but is trying to very hard to stand up. We had our pig vet out to see him last Friday, and he thinks the […]
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Joaquin Update
A few days ago we received a desperate plea from a young couple. They found a piglet left for dead in a field. Though our farm is overflowing, we could not in good conscience turn away an injured baby. We took the little one to the vet yesterday, and while he will need a ton […]
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Joaquin the Piglet
We received an urgent email on Friday night, from a young couple who had rescued a piglet, not 2 weeks old, from a pasture near Pembroke. The little pig was left for dead, after his mother had accidentally stepped on him, leaving a large wound on his back. After being out in the pasture for […]
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The Little Pig That Didn’t Go To Market
On an especially sweaty summer day this past July, a baby pig tumbled off a transport truck on the 401. Bloodied and bruised from her fall, confused by the loud noises of the highway, she ran across two lanes of traffic and hid herself in the bushes on the shoulder of the road. Thankfully, a […]
