The show Saturday was again a bust. I really didn't have anything to show so I took the motley group of semi-barbered Texels. I guess I'm too discriminating because no one said anything about the chew spots. They ARE hard to spot.

Paddy the piggy pig again slept under his water bottle Thursday night. The combo of water and pee and wet wood pellets made his butt stink, so I lightly shampooed it. I kept him in the ex pen all day and night Friday but he was till damp on Saturday. And crunchy, since I hadn't given him a full bath. Ugh. I asked them to do Texels towards the end and spent most of the show scrunching his coat trying to make it drier and softer. Needless to say we didn't win anything, but a couple got some nice comments and at one point it was close between my pig and a really nice other one.

OMG Ruby just had a baby! Just now next to me.

She wasn't very big so I thought she wasn't due right away. But just a few minutes ago I saw her sort of look up and then start a bit. Then she laid down and I thought, well maybe she just made a couple poops. (In hindsight early labor does feel like intestinal distress.) But she acted like she couldn't get comfortable and turned around several times like a dog. Ten minutes later i look over and here's a big wet baby! I didn't even palpate her--if she has more I'll be suprised.

His guy (gal?) is mostly black with a white ear and white leg and a bit of white on the belly. Not good distribution but so far his conformation is excellent and coat looks promisingly kinky. Not sure what I'll do with a broken, though. Breed it to roans I suppose. I need Ruby's (TSW) conformation in my roans. The bad distribution is no surprise. It's black Coal's baby. I should have bred her to a roan I suppose, but they're busy with other sows. I could use a couple more really nice roan boars.