We spend a lot of time thinking about pig pregnancies….
We time the meeting of our sows and boar very carefully so the due dates don’t fall on a holiday or during one of our rare vacations. We track heat schedules (which means the sow’s ovulation cycles) for every sow and we have to be ready-to-go for piglet deliveries during every season and during any type of weather.
My husband is the best farm partner I could have ever asked for and luckily, he keeps us super organized with all of this. He makes these crazy master excel sheets that plan out all of our pig pregnancies a full year in advance so we know exactly when we need to introduce a sow to our boar, and it usually runs pretty smoothly.
But, let’s be honest. We’re not perfect over here. And it turns out, we made a liiiiiitle error on a day in early November when we were a little over-tired and overworked getting ready for Thanksgiving turkey time.
We introduced 3 sows to the boar and they all happened to go into heat on the same day. This means that instead of our usual routine where we have one sow delivering at a time, we have 3 and they are all due on the EXACT SAME DAY!
We’ve been calling the highly anticipated event the “piglet explosion” and it’s all happening this Sunday! It will be a record for Team Stonecrop so be sure to check out our Instagram and Facebook pages if you want to see pics of our organic pigs Stormy, Cricket and Garfield and their little ones on the way.
Your Farmers,
Jenney and Greg