posted 6 years ago
My American Guinea Hogs (AGH) had piglets, and those piglets are now 6 months old and uncontainable in my electric pig paddocks which are periodically rotated. Its my own fault and I think I know why, I believe I inadvertantly trained them to do this when they were still tiny, but thats not why Im posting.
So Im watching my flerd wander around the pasture from my back porch, its been a lovely day and a welcome break from the cold and wet, a balmy 50 odd degrees and sunny. The pasture is about 3 or 4 acres big, south facing hillside with a big lateral swale halfway up. My two Jerseys seem to lead the way closely followed by a donkey, then five Shetland sheep and then the four AGH piglet escape artists with periodic visits from opportunistic Guinea Fowl and chickens. An idyllic Old McDonald parade to be sure. And I should say that at this juncture this is a daily routine of the flerd. The AGHs have found the wet spots and focus their ploughing there. I would be tempted to say that the buggers are ploughing up perfectly good lush pasture, but a thought lightbulb went off in my head... What if I planted into the roughly ploughed up sod? What if I just followed their lead and sprinkled seeds into the wake of their destruction? Seeds of plants that enjoyed wet spots, like oats, or maybe Cattails? Or maybe clover and orchard grass seed? And now on to my question for anyone who has stayed with me because they are bored and have nothing else going on right this minute.
THE QUESTION...has anyone heard of planting into pig ploughing devastation with grains, or pasture grass seeds, or maybe root crops? And if so how did it work out?