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I call these two pictures
"Waking Up The Barn"
This is about 5:30 in the morning when I go out to feed all the animals in the barn.
One Eyed Jack!
This is our sweet little Jack jack. Jack came to me with a damaged left eye, he is blind on that side, so the name One Eyed Jack, but he is just Jack-jack or Jackie to us here. He is about 6 months old and never really grew, always stayed small, his weight I would guess is about 30 lbs, if that. But as you can see in the last 3 pictures, he is only as tall as 3 links up in a chainlink fence. The dish he is eating out of is a medium dog dish bowl. He and Skippy get fresh cooked vegetables, Potbelly pig food, bread and fresh fruits everyday, but Skippy grew and my dear little Jackie stayed small.
In this first picture he is modeling one of Mrs. Bones beautiful collars.
In the second picture he is in his pen behind the house. Jackie does not live in the barn with Skippy because he is too small and Skippy , like Jackie, is a boar and they do not get along. But Jackie is our little favorite and walks on a lead with a harness and comes when he is called and just is a joyous, wonderful, precious little potbelly pig.
These 2 pictures to the left are Skippy.
I started out with Skippy and got Jack as a bonus. The reason for Skippy was that I had a black racer snake problem in my barn, they killed 2 of my 3 turkeys.
So I called up an old farmer at a feed store and he told me to get a couple pigs.
He said snakes know pigs are predators and will kill and eat them so they avoid barns where pigs are.
Sounds a little fishy, right? Well I thought so too, but I had just lost my dearest Marcel (Gunter's brother) and was completely heartbroke. So I got 2 pigs, Jack is right behind the house and Skippy lives in the barn. I have not seen a single snake since Skippy has arrived.
I guess that old farmer was right on the money when he told me to get a couple pigs to keep the snakes away.
Skippy is nothing like Jackie, he avoids human touch and is not tame in the least. Where as Jackie loves human touch and gets all upon us for smoozing and being carried around and nuzzling into our necks.
But Skippy, best dern snake chaser in the whold dang world!
Here are the '3 Tenors'
Joe, Aris and Diesel, all of them brothers and my barn mousers.
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This is Gunter, a bronze turkey stag.
Gunter was 1 of 3 turkey babies I had gotten, sadly Marcel (stag) and Liane (hen) were killed by the black Racer snakes before put Skippy the pig in the barn.
Turkeys are nothing like a bird, they act more like a puppy. Gunter follows me around the bard chirrupping and cooing.
In the pictures with the mirror, I was curious what he would do and I wanted some pictures of him fluffing his feathers out. He did and then after a very short time, he started looking behind the mirror.
It seemed that he knew the stag looking back at him was not real and walked away and does not bother with a mirror image anymore.
He really is such a beautiful turkey, even though visually he is beauty challenged, but his personality makes him very, very beautiful.
Hailey goat, she has her story too.
Hailey is a 12 & 1/2 year old african pygmy goat and came to Moondance from Richmond Virginia.
She was part of a hard that consisted of a potbelly pig and a goose.
Her herd passed on from old age and she was alone. Goats are herd animals and do much better if they have their herd.
So Hailey has come here to Moondance and has adopted all of the barn as her herd.
She even has a beau, Skippy the pig is in love/lust with her. He has not figured out yet she is not a potbelly pig and I think he digs older women. ::laughs::
Then we have Kipper and Danny.
They came to Moondance from my Vet Dr. Brown.
These two boys were just as wild as acouple of mustangs.
But now, after a few months and gentle words and trust they are complete joys of my life, even though the two have escaped 2 times from my barnyard, they never go anywhere, just show me where I have failures in my fence line.
But goodness they are just as sweet as can be.
