Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

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Maybe look into one of those walk-in tubs
Walk in tub ... hmmm... if you are worried about a small leak ... if and when you open the tub door while still in a bath tub before it is fully drained ... you REALLY HAVE A BIG LEAK !!! :th
 

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It is hot, Wilbur is wearing a fat suit and he loves to get squirted several times a day. So I oblige him and wet him down, then I wet down his laying place. Can’t make him a mud hole in this sand, so I just try to keep him a wet spot. I won’t spray him near the fence, he would wallow a hole the size of a Volkswagen bug in no time.

First I put water in his tub, he gets a good drink. Then I direct the nozzle where I want him to stand and he walks over there. Sometimes he goes and stands there waiting for me to spray him.

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He has a hole wallowed out behind the mulch pile. The trees shade him all day, the mulch pile keeps the sun off as it’s going down. So I spray his wallow real good.

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Today I was in the garden. Wilbur lumbered to the fence and said, “unt”. I tossed him a rutabaga. He sniffed it, looked at me and said, “unt”. Obviously he did not want a rutabaga. I went through my new gate and walked around his pen. I broke off a bouquet of sassafras twigs which he happily munched on. I offered him a Persimmon branch. “Unt”. That’s pig Latin for Nope. I offered him elm. He took it and ate it. So now I know that I am supposed to give him sassafras and elm twigs for his treat.
 

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Wilbur did not get fed today. Tomorrow we load him up and we take him Wednesday morning for slaughter. Tomorrow my husband will back the trailer up to the gate, the trailer gate swings out and on the other side we'll use a cow panel. Open the 12' gate to his pen and squoosh a boiled egg. Toss it halfway in the trailer, toss a couple more up in the nose of the trailer. He'll hop in and slam the gate. Boiled eggs with an empty tummy makes it easy to load hogs. We are going to drive across a truck scale before and after we take him to slaughter so we can get a live weight.
 

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