We had a surprise about midnight last Thursday night - Barb had piglets! Thankfully our Karakachan livestock guardian dogs alerted us to the middle of the night action. She had 22 piglets total - although, unfortunately, not all of them made it. We had 12 survive & are doing well. On Sunday, she stepped on 1 of the 12 & split the skin on his leg. We bandaged him up (thanks for helping Heather!) & Jennifer is now bottle feeding the little guy, who they named Pumpkin. (Thanks Jennifer & family - pumpkin is 1 spoiled little piggy!) We're having a lot of fun watching these little guys running around the pen. It amazes me to see the HUGE size difference between these little ones & their mom below.

These are a few photos of our newest 2 sets of twins - Opals twins (88%, 1 1/2 days old) & Sasha's twins (Fullbloods, 1 day old). These aren't the best photos since they were running around the garage when I was taking them. Will get some better photos when I can get them outside in a few days.

Sasha's doeling #2 - love her dark tail - 1 day old in photo

Sasha's doeling #2 - fullblood - 1 day old

Sasha's doeling #1 - fullblood - 1 day old

Sasha's doeling #1 - fullblood - 1 day old

Sasha's doeling #1 - 1 day old

Opals doeling - 1 1/2 days old

Opal's buckling - 1 1/2 days old

Opal's doeling & Sasha's doeling #1

The new kids getting to know each other.

Babies keep coming!

We had 2 more sets of twins born - doe/buck twins last night & twin does this morning. Jerry is loving having 3 does & 3 sets of twins in his garage. :) 1st of the twins last night was breech- but everyone is doing well today. Hope to get photos tomorrow & will post them. We get about a 2 week break before our March does start kidding. Also hoping our hog has her piglets in March.

2 new additions - twin boer kids born last night

Our 2 newest additions at Dixieland Acres - fullblood twin boer kids born last night. Scarlet gave us a paint buckling that in at 10.6 pounds & a traditional doeling that weighed 8.4 lbs. PICURES TAKEN AT 12 HOURS OLD.

paint buckling

traditional doeling

Roosters Everywhere!!

We're overrun with roosters lately. The majority of eggs we hatched this year were rooster - go figure. :) We're hoping to find new homes for a few of them. Below are just a few pictures.

Newest additions - 4H hogs 2010

Danielle got her 4H project hogs today - 1 from the Horsleys at Land of Promise Farm & 1 club hog as a backup. We had forgotten how small they start out after having Barb (1 of her hogs from last year that is now about 450 pounds). Thanks to the Van Holtens for picking up the club hogs for all the kids.

Danielle with Petunia

Petunia

Danielle getting to know Petunia

Petunia checking out her new pen

Danielle with Daizy

Petunia & Daizy checking out their new home & getting to know each other - although Trixie (in background) is not too sure about her new neighbors.

Petunia & Daizy

Barb - last year's baby

We knew Barb had gotten big - but we didn't realize just how big until we picked up Danielle's new market hog for this year's 4H show.

Danielle & Barb

Jerry & Barb