Happy Hogs

Recently Shannon single handedly moved the hogs from a pasture on the far side of the barn to a fresh pasture. It involved rounding them up,  closing them into a pen,  and convincing about 20 hogs that it's in their best interest to run up a narrow chute and hop into a trailer. Finally, he pulled the stock  trailer over to their new digs. Wish I had photos of Shannon in his overalls and straw hat red-faced and chasing hogs, but I have to leave it to your imagination. If I'd been here to take photos, he wouldn't have had to chase and run because I would have helped him -  and the photos would like be rather dull.

So, you'll have to settle for Happy Hogs in nice fresh dirt. 

If you have an area that's full of brush that you want gone, for say ...a garden, then you need hogs. Hogs like nothing better than to keep busy rooting up every stump and rock while they eat the grass and it's roots. They don't eat the alder but they make it easier for us to clean it up. Once hogs have been on a piece of land long enough they turn it into a moonscape. It's tilled dirt with nothing but rocks laying on top.

A couple years ago this pen was cleared by some hogs, then the following year we planted some corn and clover in it , expanded it and turned cows into it so the cattle could eat it down. Now this years hogs have work to do in the expanded area. This makes for Happy Hogs.