See my posts about our farm: We Are Pig Farmers Our Modern Pig Barns Hanging out at the finisher barns. Our son enjoys the barn fun and petting the newest babies. He’s getting more comfortable around the big pigs when we take him along to the finisher barns and has had fun this spring showing the pigs around with his tiny show whip.  We love what we do and are committed to raising the best hogs we can and supporting the producers that my husband works with on a daily basis. Modern Production vs. Hobby Some ask… why do some of your pigs seem like pets in your pictures?  Well, we are that unusual family that (my husband) works all day around pigs and then comes home and we do that same thing for fun too, just on a smaller scale and with select pigs we have for breeding purposes.  I ask people ‘do you have horses? a boat? a deer stand?’  Same idea, the pigs you see in some of my posts that are not involved in our modern pork production operation, but rather our small breeding program where we raise pigs for our children to show.  Of course they still end up on our dinner … Continue reading Modern Pig Farming