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In the top left hand corner, you will see a red sign that says greenhouse but during the month of January and February it switches roles to a farrowing house.

Take a moment to welcome one of our 2024 Think OINK Sows, Shaquisha! Shaquisha is a Duroc! Durocs are red in color, have floppy ears and are traditionally great mothers. She is due with her piglets this weekend! Watch Shaquisha live throughout the course of the next week as she gives birth to her piglets!

We will be welcoming our other sow, Herberta, later this weekend as well!

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It baby time at Streator Township High School!!

Good morning!

Kris Jenner started labor around 8 pm last night. Her attitude saw a dramatic shift from very quiet to extremely loud and pleasant to irritable. Milk started to flow around 1 am and around 6:40 am she delivered her first piglet! Join us in watching below!

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Things slowed down ALOT last night… however they picked up around 11 today and all 12 babies were born within and hour! Babe and her babies are doing great! We will try to have the live feed going for Kris Jenner!

Piglets have just arrived! Take a look!

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Our story began in 2017 with our first sow, Betty White! Tonight we are excited to continue the tradition with welcoming a new litter of piglets at Streator High School! Our Yorkshire sow, Babe is laboring! We will have piglets soon!

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Good morning from Babe and Kris Jenner!!

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We are excited to welcome the 2023 Think OINK sows to Streator High School! These two ladies follow a line of 7 Sows that have taught Streator Ag Students about swine production!

The sows names are Babe (white, Yorkshire sow) and Kris Jenner (red, Duroc sow). Sows are due around the 16th of January! 🐷

🐷 Just like that the piglets are off heading back to the Brockman farms, where they will grow into show pigs, breeding stock, and market hogs! What an AWESOME 6 weeks it has been!

THANK YOU to our sponsors! None of this would be possible with you!

Brockman Farms - Sara & Mark (For sows)
Showtime Sires - Seth Swenson (For Semen)
Early Bird Feed & Fertilizer - Brice Hinch (For piglet feed)
Hog Slat, Inc., Rochelle (For PVC sheets for the second crate)
Crestview Showpigs - Levi Meurer (For additional raised crate)

🐷 On Thursday of this week we had Dr. Olson, a veterinarian from Novak-Rinker Veterinary Clinic, come and castrate the boars (male piglets). We would like to thank her for her time in explaining the process as well as being a great teacher in allowing some of our students to try it for themselves!

🐷 During class she explained to students that this common practice in pork production occurs to eliminate boar taint, an poor odor and flavor that occurs in the meat if the pigs are left intact. Castration also reduces aggression in pigs which helps keep both others pigs and farmers safe. The entire process for a pig takes less than a minute and the piglets recover quickly from the procedure.

🐷 Again, a big thank you to Dr. Olson for her help and expertise!

A full week has past since the sows have left and the piglets are loving the extra space to run around. Take a look below and see how much they have grown just in the last week!

Just one more week left with these guys!

🐷 🐷 For fun: Did you hear about the piglets who wanted to do something special for Mother’s Day?
They threw her sowprize party.

🐷🐷🐷 The piglets are named!!! Over the last week, the Agri-Science class took some time to create these graphics to introduce their chosen piglets and each piglets’ name.

Each week, the groups are responsible for weighing their piglet to determine their average rate of gain, how much weight they gain each day. The piglets have grown fond of the starter feed, which has helped them gain weight as well!