Summer Inventory 2...

Time to take a second moment to reflect on what's going on around the farm and our numbers.  What my husband got incorrectly was not that he refuses to plant extra russett potatoes for his wife and mother of his little ones, because in reality, he doesn't plant extra for me.  His philosophy is if he doesn't plant them, he doesn't have to eat them and I'll be forced to cook only the red ones.  Based on the number of red potatoes we sell, we have found that people like them the most as well.  But I'm getting off topic. 

My husband wrote the sentence about one of our gilts having her litter soon.  What it should have read was, "Unbeknownst to me, our gilt is currently having a litter of piglets."  We had just discussed the game plan for separating her and where/how we were going to set up her area in the pasture for her to have her piglets "soon."  So it was quite a surprise when he went out to check the pigs and get our gilt's seperate farrowing pen/pasture ready and found her in the middle of piggy labor with four little piglets finding their way to nurse.  Fast forward a couple of hours later, they are completely separated and nine little piglets are wrestling and climbing all over each other trying to eat.  Mom is resting and seems to be doing well.  Unfortunately, this weekend is a little cool, so preparations are being made now to do what we can to ensure their warmth.  In conclusion, it appears as though our calculations were a little off.  She delivered at about the time she should have, it was just our miscalculations that led to this pleasant, adorable surprise.  *Picture to follow soon.*