How to Wash a Pig

How to Wash a Pig

Step One: Start with a Dirty Pig

dirty pig

Step Two: Start with a Pig Who Likes To Shower (see his smile?)

smiling pig in shower

Step Three: Prepare to Get Wet (payback for your toddler bathtimes)

washing a pig

Step Four: Don’t Forget the Ears

washing a pig

Step Five: Don’t Forget the Belly

washing a pig Step Six: Rinse Well

washing a pig

Step Seven: Hope the Judge Isn’t Looking the Other Way During Your Close-Up (there’s always next year…)

Connor and pig in the show ring

This Little Piggy | Crook County 4-H

This Little Piggy | Crook County 4-H

It was Connor’s fourth year of 4-H this year and Miles’s first official year. We don’t have everything figured out yet, but are fortunate to have a great pig breeder (Thayne Egbert in Idaho) and a fantastic 4-H club, the Wild Hogs.

We usually bring the small weaner pigs home in April. They’re fresh-faced and cute.

two little piggies

Really cute.

two little piggies

They grow quickly.

Connor and pig

And develop personalities.

Miles and pig

Miles’s pig this year was especially well formed (look at that bubble butt!).

Miles and pig

She was so well formed that she won her class on market day. (I was at the right place at the right time to catch this shot — Miles had just figured out they were first in class.)

Miles and pig

Another year has gone and we’re looking forward to the next.

Miles and friends at pig stall