Well Laverne and Shirley are right at home. Yup, we now have two little pink piggies, both with and exclusive taste for soaked bread, and nigh an interest in grower feed. Fortunately, I've found a free source of bread, so I splurge by buying milk to soak it in and toss in some of our extra eggs for protein. May they please learn to like other food! When Laverne was Ms Piggy and our sole pig, we thought her destructive behavoir might be subdued with the presence of a companion. We bought one of her sisters, since these were the only piggies for sale in the area. Spent 4 hours building (I use that term loosely...we are both inept when it comes to construction)a 6x6 piggie pen in an old fenced garden. The are in hog heaven! Laverne will be kept for future breeding, Shirley will be our first attempt at butchering....a pig roast? Surely the only way we'd still be able to identify it as pork....

Only 3 of the 10 guinea hens left thank goodness! They are doing their best to torture the chickens, as well as each other, and have taught the chickens their escape artists tricks! So go the first few weeks of our new homestead adventure, and I'd like to thank you all for the great info and direct help we can get here!

Sue& Bob

-- Sue (sulandherb@aol.com), March 27, 2002

Answers

Dont buy milk- go ask some one who has a herd of milk goats and you can get it for free! I got a pig to drink some of the excess milk!

-- Kevin in NC (Vantravlrs@aol.com), March 27, 2002.

Ask at your local store if they would dump the out of date milk in your bucket lots of them will also we get theire day older bread and bad veggies

-- leroy (yorel_56714@yahoo.com), March 30, 2002.