Picking Up After PIgs
October 17, 2008
Some jobs are tougher than others. Working on a farm is one of those. Since I was a freshman in high school I have spent every summer working on my uncle’s pig farm. He and his wife own a 6,000-acre farm with more than 800 pigs. They raise the pigs to slaughter for ham, bacon and many other pork products. Raising pigs demands a lot of clean up.
That’s where I come in; I have to clean out all of the piglet’s stalls. The little ones are separated from the adults at birth because adult male pigs are aggressive towards younger males. Those piglets make quite and mess and stink! I start be shoveling out their pens, then I spray down the floor, and finally, I add more hay for them to nest in. I get so dirty sometimes that it’s hard to scrub off in the shower. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have sanitary gloves to wear at work.