Posted on 05/04/2016 12:58:41 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
A couple of months ago my neighbor called me and asked for me to help him get a 400 pound hog loaded into a livestock trailer.
I jumped on my ATV and headed on over there to help. After about an hour we still hadn’t succeeded and I was literally covered in blood. My own!
I finally told him if he wanted anymore help from me he could start by building a proper hog pen with loading corrals!
Agreed
Back in the 90’s when the pot-bellied pig thing was going strong, there were stories about pig farmers setting up road-side stands selling ‘pot-bellied’ piglets for a great price, about half the price of other sellers.
Buyers figured out these weren’t really pot-bellied pigs, when a few months later they had a 600 pound sow or boar in their living room.
Ha ha!
I remember a sow coming after my dad when I was just a kid.
He just made it over the fence with just a bit of his pants left in her teeth. Scared the heck out of me!
Not just the attack, but the horrible noise when she charged.
Also seeing my big daddy so threatened!
I wouldn’t go into the pig pen after that and still don’t like them.
My oldest daughter, farmer, loves her piggers and keeps their quarters so clean you can’t tell they’re in the barn.
My kids came home w/scramble pigs, too.
One we could NOT keep penned. You may not believe it but pigs CAN climb!
The first time he got out we figured that he must have climbed up an old leaning apple tree that was near the fence.
He traveled across the road and was rooting up the neighbor’s hayfield and aai knew that wouldn’t be appreciated so I told the kids to shut him in the horse trailer.
Nest thing I know, there he is, back across the road and that time the farmer saw him!
Well, He didn’t believe me that that pig could climb but said one of his hands had offered to buy the critter for a roast if we’d catch him and bring him over and put him in the corn crib.
Did that.
The next day he called to apologize for doubting a pig could climb.
Seems when the hand went to go home, he looked in the corn crib and NO PIG! He asked if we had brought it over and the farmer said he’d seen us put it in there.
They both went back to look and that time it made a noise and there it was, clear up by the roof of the crib!
They may not be able to fly but I assure you they can climb.
Pigs are one of the most vicious animals on Earth.
“In Medieval times, Europeans put animals that had committed crimes on trial, often providing them with all the same rights as people, including the right to a lawyer and a fair trial. While the punishments seem harsh to us today, keep in mind that humans were given the exact same treatment.”
http://www.globalanimal.org/2011/02/14/medieval-court-cases-animals-on-trial/
They also burned “witches” and hanged an elephant.
Messed up times.
They are responsible for *far* more deaths than dogs yet no one is seeking to ban them.
Go figger.
The likely demise of Jimmy Hoffa...
The “Burning Times” was about *money*.
When accused by the church, their property was instantly confiscated, pending their acquittal.
Problem was, they were never acquitted.
So the church kept it all and became very, very rich.
It was one of the most deeply evil times in human history.
I’ll have to remember that saying. Sounds like she was not having a good time driving through that snow storm.
So, did a pig really eat her little brother?
Oh I believe you about the thing climbing. They are far stronger than they look.
Thousands of folks suffered from the witch accusations in Europe but all we ever hear about is the few here in the colonies.
The civil authorities were splitting asset forfeiture loot with the church ones.
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