Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - First Week of July 2017

Admittedly, the pace of my writing has slowed this Summer since each day is filled with a combination of IT work, mentoring, and keeping 60 acres of farm/sanctuary running smoothly.  How ’s it all going? Our trajectory is good.So much of what we ’re doing at the farm/sanctuary is improvisation that we have no choice but to create a vision and accept ambiguity on the daily journey.We received a request to adopt a house pig - Rue, who ’s 80 pounds at 4 years old and extremely well behaved. We ’ve been socializing her with the other pigs and thus far, all is proceeding as expected - they challenge each other across a fence and eventually accept their place in the social hierarchy.  Now that we have 5 pigs, the question we asked is what is their ideal living arrangement - how can we create a pig “condo complex” that works in summer and winter for everyone. Sometimes a sense of urgency is needed to motivate change.  We have 8 baby turkeys and they needed a safe outdoor home.  Although we built an aviary last year, Penny, the Yorkshire pig, was living in the aviary at night because she was not ready to spend the night with Tofu and Lunchbox, the pot belly pigs.  Although we knew it would cause one night of anxiety, we put all of them together in a paddock and gave Penny a separate crate so that she could have a private space.  After a few nights, she began sleeping with the other pigs and no...
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