With an oink, oink here and an oink, oink there...

 

Meet our newest additions to the family!

 

Starvin' Marvin and Rudy!

 

(Both the pigs are actually girls but that didn't stop the boys and their cousins when it came time to name them)

 

The boys and I love them already. Mark just shakes his head at us while we coo at them and tell them how smart, and cute, and precious they are. He then reminds us that the bacon we ate at breakfast came from some of their brethren.

 

He's mean like that.

 

We just ignore him though and grunt at him until he gives up trying to make us see reason.

 

 

Since we have brought them home last Thursday, they have had more visitors than we have.

 

They are quite the little chatterboxes and grunt and squeal with the best of them. They are so funny to watch with their little tails dancing in circles as they root around.

 

The pig pen is right off the orchard and we planted two juniper bushes right beside it last weekend to provide more shade.

 

Mark made them two different watering containers. They have nipples at the end of them that the pigs have to press in order for the water to come out. This way they don't try to take baths in their drinking water! He placed a hook at the top of them so that the boys can easily grab and pull off the top when they are refilling them.

 

 

Mark was also in charge of picking up something for us to feed them in at D n B. He came home with the Rolls Royce version of pig feeders. He was excited because you can put in lots of food which allows us to be away from them for a day or two. Also this way they can't climb into their feeding trough and make huge messes.

 

Mark also mentioned to me that someone had told him that pigs like bowling balls to play with. He asked me to pick one up at a yard sale. I told him that in all my years of yard saling, I had yet to see a bowling ball.

 

Wouldn't you know the first time I went this year, I found one?

I hate irony...

 

But for 5 bucks our little piggies have their first toy!