The Piggy Nationals

            Welcoming spring with happy pigs

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March 29,  a breezy spring afternoon for apples  in the farm pigs area
	First Place goes to Finnegan While apples rolled around everywhere he managed to snag a gold one and went off into the corner to eat it. He is a 14 year old mixed breed who hailed from PA many years ago
	Second place is our big, beautiful, and very bossy girl, Black Beauty. She is a handful, best friends with Daisy, both 9 years old, who were rescued from slaughter. Between the 2 of them there is a fence to fix at least once a week!
	Third is Diamond Diamond is a Lanrace, a breed devleoped to be tall and lean. She looks like a daddy long legs in the midst of the stocky short pigs in her group. She is a sweet and shy girl, a touch of arthritis bothers her these days as she goes into her 9th year.	Diamond's name came from her playing with a ball while she was incarcerated at the Nashville Animal Control in a cage. They said "look, she plays baseball!", and so Diamond became her name.
	Oh Happy Pig Days!!	Marilyn didn't finish in the top 3 but she enjoyed her canteloupe very much, THANK YOU!! And had no intention of sharing it with Finnegan as you can see

Here's a way for  you to get to know some of the pigs you sponsor and support at Pig Christmas, it's a mini fundraiser to help us  provide a taste of spring at the end of the long cold winter as they wait for spring's new grasses.    

Here's how it works >>>

Starting with National Pig Day (March 1st)  and ending on March 29 , we will open the gates and let one of the adjacent herds come into the rotation field where we will have hidden some GOLDEN FRUIT;   gold Delicious Apples, bananas, pineapples or pears  along with red apples and other fruit/veggies. (enough so everyone gets some fresh crunch). We will film the pigs as they sort through the hiding places and discover their GOLDEN TREASURE..

Each major herd will have its unique eligible players.. shown below in the weekly event table.

The first 3 (eligible)  pigs  to find the golden fruit will be declared the winners.!

 All sponsors will receive a gift certificate for participating in this year's spring games..  Those who pick the winners get to choose from a prize pool of available gift certificates.

A photo newsletter link to the Nationals page (this one) will follow with the pictures of the "game" and  the winners . Video clips will be published on this page for you to share the fun.

The Games    

 Pictures will be sent via email (Huggin Hogs Newsletter) within 48 hours and those pig savvy folks who chose the winning pigs may choose from the  Prize Pool link posted that week on the game schedule above. Prizes will be gift cards at national restaurants and on line stores, like Amazon, Petco,  and others. Thank you gift certificates for all sponsors will be mailed by April 15. Please be sure we have your correct mailing address.

And a grand prize ..  for the email players who choose any three of the five first place winners

Rules. Anyone who is a newsletter subscriber can play. If you are not a newsletter subscriber and someone forwards a newsletter to you and you want to play, subscribe to the newsletter first and then make your selections. If you join only to play, that's OK! Simply unsubscribe when you want. Our email newsletters are secure services that protect our contacts from spam or your email being bought or sold by email "harvesters". So sit back and enjoy the fun without worries of suddenly getting dozens of unwanted emails.

This is a fundraiser.. we hope to raise enough to cover our feed bill for March special needs and provide all the weekly fruits for the games. You can make a donation of any size on line at PayPal by clicking below and choosing your pigs for each game.  

So play for fun and play for funding with a $5,  $10 or $25 donation to sponsor your favorite pig

Come along and join the fun.. . its time for the Pig Nationals!!

Game Number 1 begins next year on Feb 21  and runs at 12 noon central time on March 1, National Pig Day! .

The Little Sow Sisterhood. Our first game (and my fav video)  in 2010 below..

Thank you all for bringing this taste of summer to our late winter days.

Sponsor your lucky pig  below

How sure are you?

Not very sure $5.00 Well, Maybe $10.00 OK, why not? $15.00 Thats the winner! $25.00 Free pass (refunded) $0.10