Escaped!

Sunday the pigs escaped!  It was such a shock as these pigs have never escape before!  It was just Jeff and I and there was no way the pigs were going to go back home with our minimal encouragement.  We called to them, but without treats there was really nothing we could do.  They wandered off south to the small creek.  Ugh!  That meant Monday the kids and I had to try to round up our adult pigs, Hogrid, Harriet, and Arianna.  

Monday, we showed up with apples to get the pigs to follow us back to their home.  First, we found the 2 girls.  We got them to follow us (Mhari and Lorna) back to their home.  Then we went to hunt down Hogrid.  Luckily, we found him pretty quickly.  He wasn't as interested in following us, but he did.  After quite some work we had the 3 pigs home again!  I'm so glad the kids spend as much time as they do with the pigs.  They were much happier following them, than Jeff and me.  I really wondered if we were going to lose the pigs to the wild.  Spraying water at the end really helped get Hogrid back home.  It had really started to warm up.  I think the pigs enjoyed being down in the cool creek!  

We also moved the bison to pasture 7.  They were so happy to have more grass to eat.  With the warm weather, the grasses have been greening up really well.  Hopefully this year the weather cooperates, and the animals do better on pasture!