Safety in numbers
Sep. 27th, 2021 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormSo a lot of my energy/money goes to my farm, which is primarily dedicated to breed preservation. That is, I keep my freezer full but I'm maximized neither for feeding myself nor making money. I'm maximized for being able to have as many people keep Ossabaw hogs as breeding stock as possible.
I'd been maintaining two boars for the genetic diversity, knowing I needed to downsize to one but really waffling on who to keep. I'd also been starting to cut down my original sows and keep offspring.
The other day I got a call from someone who was looking for an adult breeding pair, just two, to keep as homestead pigs. It sounds like his situation is perfect to keep Oak, from the Ontario line, and Nox, one of my original sows. They're both very friendly animals, they're a little on the smaller side, and I think they'll be a good fit. That's a substantial relief since it means none of those boars will go for sausage, they'll be in a breeding home, and Ossabaws will be introduced to a new town.
If I actually successfully get a deposit from them this will be very good.
I'd been maintaining two boars for the genetic diversity, knowing I needed to downsize to one but really waffling on who to keep. I'd also been starting to cut down my original sows and keep offspring.
The other day I got a call from someone who was looking for an adult breeding pair, just two, to keep as homestead pigs. It sounds like his situation is perfect to keep Oak, from the Ontario line, and Nox, one of my original sows. They're both very friendly animals, they're a little on the smaller side, and I think they'll be a good fit. That's a substantial relief since it means none of those boars will go for sausage, they'll be in a breeding home, and Ossabaws will be introduced to a new town.
If I actually successfully get a deposit from them this will be very good.
