Herbfarm's New Pigs

The Herbfarm's Executive Chef Keith Luce with Wooly Pigs' Heath Putnam.

My wife and I delivered the Herbfarm their piglets today. The piglets came out of the kennel and into their pen:



Bill Vingelen, the Herbfarm's head gardener and herdsman, was happy to see the new guys.

Wooly Pigs' Heath Putnam and The Herbfarm's Bill Vingelen
shake with new Mangalitsa piglets between them.

Later the piglets went over to the edge of the fence. The Herbfarm's bigger pigs, who have grown gorgeously fat, ran over to inspect the newcomers:



The older pigs were fascinated by the little ones. They made a lot of noise, sniffed them and tried to reach them:

The Herbfarm's Fat Hogs Study the New Arrivals

We later put one of the piglets into the big pen. The hogs chased it and aggressively nosed it, flipping it around. Eventually we put it back in the neighboring pen, so that the piglets could grow unharassed. Mixing pigs with such a disparity in sizes is a bad idea, because the older hogs could easily crush or maim the younger ones.