Glacier Ridge

We get a lot of questions about what we do, when we tell, we are asked what do you mean pasture farrow?? Here a few picture of our farrowing pastures.

In the winter we use small pens that are in a revamped chicken house, we bed the sows on straw in a 4x5 pen. The sows get turned out 2Xs a day, and get cleaned every 3rd day. We usually wean 14-21 days old. We also A.I. certain sows for show pigs for a few local 4-H kids, including our daughter, and for the Minnesota Spring Barrow show.

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We always enjoy this time of the year. Below is just a few pictures of one of the sows that farrowed 12/24/2008. The sow in the pictures below was bred and farrowed on the farm. She is "Grimm" bred.  The sow pictured below was hand picked to be A.I.'d to a Triple B boar, Grizz, who is a black excotic out of a sow called The Beast X Moody Blues.

Not the entire litter is shown in the photos below.

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Spring of 2008

Below is  the contestents for the 2008 Worth County 4-H Swine Show..

Getting all gussied up for the 2008 Worth County Swine Show

In the ring...Individual Barrow...

We placed in 1,2, and 3rd pens.  Sky did well at the 2008 Worth Couty Fair. Thank you Grandpa and Grandma!!

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Summer of 2008

A fine litter of 13 pigs

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Below is 2007

The next two pictures are on a day we weaned.

Below is a pen of 3, that we bred and finished to show. The picture was taken at the 2007 County Fair.

 THANK YOU GRANDPA & GRANDMA!!!!