Hogs Bobbing for Apples

In an earlier post I mentioned getting a load of apples from a local orchard to feed to the pigs. Jane thought it would be fun to see if the pigs would bob for apples. You know, the way they used to do at Halloween parties back in the good ol' days.

So we pitched a couple apples in the water tank and watched.

 

 

 I'm not going to try it, you go first. No, you try first.

O.K. Here goes!

Success! Or the guest of honor at a luau party.

As you can see, pigs are pretty good at bobbing for apples. Who'd of thunk it.

Apple Time

Fall is a time when all kinds of crops are plentiful. There is a lot of food that is wasted because it is over ripe or blemished. Much of it makes good feed for our hogs. Saturday, we gathered up windfall apples for pig food. We gathered the apples from under 6 or 7 trees in no time. These would otherwise go to waste.

Big scoop for a little girl!

Just a few more buckets and the truck will be full!

This is just one more way that we try to offer our pigs a healthy and varied diet. You wouldn't want to eat the same old thing every day and neither do they. Much thanks to our friends at Indian Hills Orchard in Fulton, IL and the other farmers market vendors who have sent surplus produce home for our pigs. It makes great pork!