Sullivan County Oysters

Our 14 little piglets had to get the old castration and the first iron shot on Wednesday.  The operation went surprisingly smooth.  We had to move their momma, Diana, into another pen, then we just grabbed the piglets and went far away.  When I first got to this job, I had to castrate piglets that were 3 months old.  Talk about HORRIBLE.  But, 7 males handled themselves well.  Some screaming and one bite landing on Lakes' forearm and that was it. 

Then we went back to Diana...

She apparently wasn't as happy as we thought.  We locked her in her original pen and quickly tossed the piglets back in.  She didn't really want anything to do with us yesterday, but was better with me today when I went to say hello.

One nice thing that we discovered about Diana is that Diana is the Roman Goddess of the Hunt, Goddess of the Moon, and also the Goddess of Birthing.  How fitting!