EPISODE 4 - Faces in the Crowd - Baylee Weeks

Let's go back to the barn 'cause I think that you've got a lot of hopes and dreams.

I'm sure that you're gonna accomplish all of them.

I hope that you do at least.

Um, let's talk a little bit about working your livestock, and I know that you said you have pigs, kind of both sides of the barn right now.

So you've got some bigger pigs that you're gonna head to Tulsa, and then you also mentioned you have some smaller pigs that you're kind of starting your, uh, let's say your next year's set on already.

Um, talk to me a little bit about, let's start with the baby pig process 'cause I think as people are, they start, they get these pigs home.

Mm-hmm.

So let's talk about what that looks like and then transition me into, like, what you're doing with these pigs that you're getting ready to go to Tulsa and, uh, Kansas City.

Mm-hmm.

So, um, with the baby pigs, we have a separate, like, wash rack that's not like a part...

It's a part of our barn but not really, and so we always try to clean that up really good and, like, bleach it, disinfect it, and put shavings down in there.

And that's where we keep most of our baby pigs while we still have bigger pigs on feed just for biosecurity measures, safety measures.

You wanna keep them safe and healthy.

And so we always keep them li- like in a separate part.

And then for the bigger pigs, they're in the main part of our barn.

And right now it's actually really nice with my class schedule since I'm a senior.

I don't have to go to school until about 10 o'clock in the morning.

And so in the mornings I wake up and I walk my pigs for Tulsa.

I get them out every morning and then, um, we feed around 6:00 every morning.

And so after we feed, I get them out and walk them and tan them.

And then in the afternoons, we try to wash them.

And I clean pens usually about twice a week, but really just whenever they're dirty because pigs are obviously pretty gross.

[laughs]

And, um, yeah, that's pretty much my schedule right now.

And those pigs are probably getting to the point now where they wanna go outside, so they're not leaving you much of a mess in their pens anyway when you're walking them, so.