Pig Shelter Destroyed by Oregon Rain Storm
When you raise Glory to God Hogs, you have to be ready for whatever God decides to throw at you. That includes embracing the rain and wind. Nature makes trying to figure out how to raise premium pastured pork that free range in the forest failure prone. And fail is what one of a pig shelter did in the last storm.
Oregon is known for rain, but the recent system that moved through the coast range and Willamette Valley foothills was pretty intense here on the farm. Our rain gauge indicated nearly 3 inches of rain from the storm. That’s an insane amount of rain, especially for Oregon. Usually we get drizzle for months on end, not huge deluges. As such, I suspect that some of the rain was from a storm a day or two earlier. Nevertheless, it was a big storm for us.
Regardless, the family pig farm keeps operating, with a little more work to be done. The rain destroyed the sows’ pig shelter. You can check out the take down and rebuilding of the shelter here.
A couple days after the storm we were down at the creek playing with the kids. The water had receded, but it had obviously been quite a rise as a large fir tree had fallen from the bank of the creek.
Check out the relatively minor damage we received from the storm.
Some pigs also get their heads stuck in a bucket . . . and people say pigs are smart.
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