Lay Low Farm

Lay Low Farm Just a small farm started on dreams and slowly became a reality. We currently only have pigs but it is a work in progress and pigs are adorable.

06/23/2024

Have 3 butcher ready pigs. Have a butcher date of 30th but am reaching out to a few mobile butchers to have it done before then.
So if interested please reach out on the farm page.

05/19/2024

So I’ll have a few barrows ready for butcher soon.

I currently have 3 barrows ready for butcher currently. 1 is pending though. I can have a mobile butcher come or deliver to a butcher of a person’s choosing within reasonable distance.

Please message me with any questions.

I’ve been super quiet lately be it in groups, my business pages, my texts & messages, and in general my life currently. ...
01/17/2024

I’ve been super quiet lately be it in groups, my business pages, my texts & messages, and in general my life currently. I’m mourning a hard loss for me, that I’m not able to pretend like I normally would when having a bad day or an off day.

I work hard with my pigs. This pass weekend after trying all the advice between the vet and other farmers we had to make the decision to put Sindel down. This was extremely hard as Sindel I had raised up as an orphan piglet with her sister Katana back in July of 2022. We almost lost her as a 2 week old piglet and thankfully my vet walked me through what I needed to do then and she survived to give me a single litter of 2 boys the day before my birthday. She has always been a in my pocket kind of pig. Always vocal always excited to see me.

We have discussed potentially selling all the breeding stock and taking a break. I want to make the decision with a more open mind and calm heart vs the internal chaos to losing one of my favorite pigs.

I know it’s farm life but it never gets easier.

Pic is when I first brought home Sindel and Katana.

So while it’s been a hectic few weeks let me catch everyone up to date. I sold the last of my original breeding herd off...
09/06/2023

So while it’s been a hectic few weeks let me catch everyone up to date.

I sold the last of my original breeding herd off a few weeks ago Olivia our Berkshire sow for her second litter she decided that she wasn’t going to be a good mom second time around again so now I’m currently hand raising piglets. There is 4 surviving piglets I was able to save from her onslaught.

They are now 3 weeks old and have been introduced to mash for the last 2 weeks even if they just played in it the first week I introduced it. They are still getting milk but at longer intervals they have access to water 24/7.

Our first litter is doing great being raised by the herd. It was only 2 piglets both boars. They turn 6 weeks old in a few days. They will be available after they turn 6 weeks old. Cute little things too.

Escanor our main breeding boar has given us 2 wonderful litters and while him and his sons are all available. His 2 daughters will be staying here with their cousins.

08/16/2023

Olive have birth Monday morning. To 6 piglets unfortunately this time around she was not a good mom and ate 2 of her piglets so we pulled the litter and they are being raised inside and pan fed.

Olive is being sent off to freezer camp as eating live piglets is not tolerated here. She hasn’t called for her piglets once no care and being her normal sweet self but I dont trust it or her.

We had a small litter of mangalista crosses. With only 2 boar piglets in the litter. Sindel was bred nearing the end of ...
08/04/2023

We had a small litter of mangalista crosses. With only 2 boar piglets in the litter. Sindel was bred nearing the end of her cycle so we aren’t surprised on the size of the litter what we are surprised about is that she instantly started milking same day she gave birth 😅 usually our gilts have a week or 2 before the milk starts leaking.

None the less we are happy.

Escanor is the dad and the whole herd is taking care of the piglets.

This is a general picture of all the pigs enjoying themselves. We have 3 wallowing troughs, an indoor watering system an...
05/22/2023

This is a general picture of all the pigs enjoying themselves. We have 3 wallowing troughs, an indoor watering system and a few wallow pits in the different pens they have access to. Every pig has either been born and raised here by me or a sow. Then the other part have come to the farm ranging from 2 weeks old to 8 weeks old.

I am continuously hands on with my pigs so they are use to interactions and being friendly with people so they can be petted but no one is allowed in the pen except for a select few that the pigs know.

Hawk, Havek, & Bear are the dogs that run the farm. Havek is our Red Pembroke Corgi but also our pig dog he herds and mo...
05/22/2023

Hawk, Havek, & Bear are the dogs that run the farm.

Havek is our Red Pembroke Corgi but also our pig dog he herds and moves the pigs where I need them. He also helps with farm chores like carrying the hose to water the pigs.

Hawk is our blue eyed phantom merle Tricolor American corgi. He is great at desensitizing the piglets to the dogs but also playing with them if they are solo bottle babies.

Bear is our Tricolor Australian Shepard. He is the literally nursemaid of all baby animals. He is also the LGD for the piglets. He guards the piglets if the sows don’t mind him in the pen.

Banshee & Midoriya aka Deku Old Spot/York/Hereford/Large Black Gilt & Red Wattle/Hamp cross BarrowMeliodas x Flops & Unk...
05/22/2023

Banshee & Midoriya aka Deku

Old Spot/York/Hereford/Large Black Gilt &
Red Wattle/Hamp cross Barrow

Meliodas x Flops &
Unknown x Unknown

May 13, 2022 & July 2022

1 Year Old & 10 Months Old

Banshee is full sibling to Steven, Eeyore, & Persephone

Midoriya is half-brother to Kirishima

Katana Mangalista Gilt July 9, 202210 Months Old Full sister to Sindel
05/22/2023

Katana
Mangalista Gilt
July 9, 2022
10 Months Old

Full sister to Sindel

CasaNova aka Nova & Sindel Berkshire/Hereford/Large Black Gilt & Mangalista Gilt Ban x Penelope &Unknown x Unknown Octob...
05/22/2023

CasaNova aka Nova & Sindel

Berkshire/Hereford/Large Black Gilt &
Mangalista Gilt

Ban x Penelope &
Unknown x Unknown

October 10, 2022 & July 9, 2022

7 Months Old & 10 Months Old

Nova is full siblings to Yuri & Rowena
Sindel is full sibling to Katana

Rowena Ravenclaw Berkshire/Hereford/Large Black Gilt Ban x Penelope October 10, 2022 7 Months Old Full sister to Yuri & ...
05/22/2023

Rowena Ravenclaw
Berkshire/Hereford/Large Black Gilt
Ban x Penelope
October 10, 2022
7 Months Old

Full sister to Yuri & CasaNova

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Rives Junction, MI
49201

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