08/27/07, 09:36 PM
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In Remembrance
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: In beautiful downtown Sticks, near Belleview, Fl.
Posts: 7,102
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It was the Greatest race of this century
Around about 5:40 this afternoon as I was setting at the inside /outside (outside application), chair next to the small hanger there appeared 10 small pink snouts. Such of each was attached to a piglet. They milled around, they smelt my shoes, they explored both the inside and outside of the hanger.
There was approach and abandonment in haste. I make it a point to expose all adjacent animals to the sudden noises humans make. Faked coughs, same with sneezes, ect.
But it all started with cranking the back hoe, the diesel scent is what attracts them, they associate it with food - in that I use the diesel back hoe to deliver their nightly substances.
I crank it and backed it out of its parking space, nursing piglet approached in confusion, their food was in the bucket, but they were not aware of that yet.
I took the back hoe down the 1600 foot space to the pig area, they were soon in follow mode, at a high clip.
Can your mind's eye picture a faded beige Ford back hoe accompanied by 10 piglets in pursued? Rolling about 4 MPH toward a pig compound? But I had to stop at the Boer goat compound, Prancy had stuck her head through three layers of wire again to gain some morsel of undesirable weed. The piglets won this race, but next time I will be prepared for true competition. That cup will be mine!
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