oosik
Epic Contributor
I have a relative that has a "pig ranch" around Omaha. When we visited he had 6000. His barn was an open pole barn big enough to have a regulation NFL game inside. He had a concrete roadway along where he fed the nasty beasties. Drive his tractor down the roadway and the mixer/feeder spewing food into the 1/2 mile long trough for the pigs. I sat up on the upper rung of the pole fence watching his feeding operation until something spooked the porkers - en masse, they swung around and headed toward the fence where I was sitting. Have you ever seen what 6000 pigs look like as they are coming right at you - full tilt.
I got so confused/frightened I got one leg tangled in the second rung of the pole fence and almost broke it as I hustled down off.
He invited me inside to help him clean all the pig cr*p. I politely said NO - I would continue to watch from outside the fence.
He had a 12 foot rear blade on a second tractor to do the cleaning - Man, I've never seen snow roll in front of a rear blade like that pig poo did.
STINK - it was so strong an odor that you could "taste" the odor sitting out on the back lawn at his house - half a mile away.
I was truly surprised at the size of his pig barn. As the pigs finished eating they would stroll back into the barn - out of the sun. It was some God-awful mid 90 degrees and the humidity was racing the temperature towards 100.
I got so confused/frightened I got one leg tangled in the second rung of the pole fence and almost broke it as I hustled down off.
He invited me inside to help him clean all the pig cr*p. I politely said NO - I would continue to watch from outside the fence.
He had a 12 foot rear blade on a second tractor to do the cleaning - Man, I've never seen snow roll in front of a rear blade like that pig poo did.
STINK - it was so strong an odor that you could "taste" the odor sitting out on the back lawn at his house - half a mile away.
I was truly surprised at the size of his pig barn. As the pigs finished eating they would stroll back into the barn - out of the sun. It was some God-awful mid 90 degrees and the humidity was racing the temperature towards 100.
