On Sunday, Carrie and I headed down to Mosefund Farm in New Jersey to retrieve our piggies. We left late on Saturday night, for Carrie was putting the finishing touches onto the pigs' new Vermont home (their leant-to shelter). We were both pretty tired and loopy as we drove but the excitement of our new farming adventure kept us awake.
Our borrowed stock trailer. Carrie's very gracious friend loaned us her trailer and her dad gave us his truck for the journey.
Backing up our trailer. Reverse is an art, and fortunately Carrie is more skilled than I in this maneuver.
As the official photographer of Snake Mountain Farm, it was my job to document our big day. Thank god because I was not up to the difficult task of loading hundreds of pounds of pig into our trailer. Even though Carrie is 5' 2" and maybe 110 pounds, she is strong and tough. Here she is loading our two piglets into the stock trailer.
Once the two piglets were safely on board, the big job of loading the sows and boar began. There was a small gap between the two trailers but the pigs refused to bridge the chasm.
Finally, by employing plastic panels, Carrie cornered and pushed the pigs into our trailer.
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