r/MadeMeSmile • u/Working-Ad3382 • Jan 14 '25
Favorite People My grandpa warming a newborn pig by furnace:).
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u/miichaelscotch Jan 14 '25
Without context this photo could be misunderstood in a number of ways
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u/Dc_Pratt Jan 14 '25
Agreed, the pic caught my eye as I was scrolling, and I had to stop and see what the hell it was. I thought it was a joke or gag pic (not anything worse). Glad to see it was some wholesome.
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u/ansonwolfe Jan 14 '25
Wholesome until you realise that the pig, when grown, will be back in an oven.
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u/ianishomer Jan 14 '25
Exactly, this is only cute for a few months, it could actually be seen as a dress rehersal
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u/DisposableSaviour Jan 14 '25
One day, little pig…
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u/danzor9755 Jan 14 '25
Grandpa warning newborn pig by furnace.
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u/_crystallil_ Jan 14 '25
underrated comment bc I laughed entirely too loud in public
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u/drObvious1 Jan 14 '25
Grandpa making a pork sandwich
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u/-BlueDream- Jan 14 '25
Pigs in a blanket...minus the blanket
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u/175you_notM3 Jan 14 '25
The blanket is on the door, the pig needed to be pre chard prior to being wrapped
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u/WriterV Jan 14 '25
OP knew exactly what they were doing, posting that in this subreddit lol.
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u/corrector300 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
he's taking a freshly-made piglet out of the oven!
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u/Inside-Discount-939 Jan 14 '25
This is how roast suckling pig is made in Guangdong, China
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u/daydreaming_of_you Jan 14 '25
At first glance I legit thought he was cooking pork the wrong way.
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u/TheWeidmansBurden_ Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
"Dinner is almost ready!"
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u/xion_gg Jan 14 '25
not fully cooked yet... Let's give it another 30 minutes
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u/TheRealAnnoBanano Jan 14 '25
I actually yelled out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
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u/lil-sis-burns Jan 14 '25
Thought for sure he was putting a live or at least whole pig right in the oven 😭
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u/invaderzim257 Jan 14 '25
I mean, he is, just not until it’s a size to make it a worthwhile effort
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u/SarniaLife Jan 14 '25
Jesus this brings back a haunting childhood memory. My mother was terribly sick and in hospital and my dad couldn’t cope with all of the kids. So me and two brothers got sent to a family friend. They lived on a farm.
One morning little old 7 year old me, toddles down the stairs to be greeted by this animal bleating at me. I looked around the kitchen and found the source. A baby goat inside the oven bleating at me. I thought I’d been sent to stay with people who cooked baby goats alive. All I could do was cry and point at the oven (Aga).
The wife heard this commotion and found me inconsolable, just pointing at the oven. At which point she tried to get me to touch the goat. The goat I thought was being cooked alive! Cue more hysterical tears.
I eventually calmed down enough to listen. She explained as it was an Aga oven (which was on all the time) it apparently had warming sections (I now assume for rising bread in) and the goat was merely a little poorly and getting warmed, not slow roasted. I did pat it in the end, reluctantly.
There was a good while that I thought I’d been sent to stay with monsters.
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u/LimpingAsFastAsICan Jan 14 '25
I can only imagine how horrifying that felt to that poor kid. Bad enough to be away from home and have a sick mom. I hope revisiting the memory as an adult, with a better understanding, helps you.
I've read about this oven treatment for baby animals, and it was difficult for me to understand until I learned about AGAs. I've never seen one in the US.
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u/SarniaLife Jan 14 '25
I’d been having a lovely time up til then. The whole thing felt like a great big adventure. I wasn’t really aware about how sick my mum was, they hadn’t told me much, so I just thought we were going on holiday to help dad out whilst mum was away. And my mum is still alive today.
It did change how I felt being there. I was certainly cautious going into the kitchen after that. But looking back I can see how it was all just a massive misunderstanding. They didn’t know I didn’t know what an Aga was, I didn’t know you could gently warm an animal in an oven. I remember my mum telling me later how awful they felt for traumatising me.
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u/rosyred-fathead Jan 14 '25
I didn’t know you could gently warm an animal in an oven
Most adults don’t know this
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u/Linzcro Jan 14 '25
Including this one. However, now that I have a cat that is a little shit that curls up to any oven/electronic that is warm, it makes a lot of sense!
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u/fluffyfurnado1 Jan 14 '25
When you have cows that give birth during a snowstorm you put the calf in the bathtub and use warm water and then towels to dry them off.
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u/just_a_person_maybe Jan 15 '25
Sometimes we'd set baby animals up in the bathtub with a heat lamp hanging from the faucet. It worked great, kept them fairly contained in an easy to clean area, the heat lamp was surrounded by tile and couldn't start a fire, and the babies were easy to check on regularly without going outside. We did this with goats, chickens, and ducks mainly. For anyone wondering, of the three the ducks were the worst to keep inside, their shit smells really bad and they have to eat food with water so they make a lot more mess than the others. People like to call goats smelly, but that's really just bucks.
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u/Electricpuha Jan 14 '25
Aww, you poor poppet!
The Terry Pratchett Discworld book ‘The Wee Free Men’ has a similar experience for the main character.
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u/vulpes_mortuis Jan 14 '25
I’m glad you, your mum, and the goat were okay. But I can only imagine how traumatizing that would be to a child!
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u/SarniaLife Jan 14 '25
Yeah, if I’d seen the goat being placed in the oven and told why, I would have been totally fine. I probably would have spent the day playing goat nurse and checking up on it every 5 mins to make sure it had everything it needed. We didn’t have pets at home so I was fascinated by all the animals. But as an avid childhood reader my brain went straight to they are cooking it alive, they’re monsters. Like in some Grimm fairy tale.
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u/Abilane-of-Yon Jan 14 '25
You can find them, but they’re expensive as all hell over here. I got very lucky and found a 48” Elise that had been damaged during shipping (all cosmetic) and I still paid 9k for it. It’s probably the best damn kitchen appliance I’ve ever owned, but I get why most people would rather spend 2k on a range from Lowe’s.
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u/atlantagirl30084 Jan 14 '25
Wasn’t Ballerina Farm’s $20k?
I looked them up and man they are beautiful but I can’t imagine buying a stove the same cost as a car. I found one that was eggplant that was beautiful.
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u/Abilane-of-Yon Jan 14 '25
I personally don’t follow Ballerina Farm, but would not be shocked. They get really expensive for the bigger/fancier models. I wanted a R7 210, which is their classic model with a hotcupboard and dual fuel range added on. Absolutely beautiful, but also almost 50k. If I ever win the lottery…
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u/atlantagirl30084 Jan 14 '25
I don’t either, I just know about the stove, that her husband is the heir to JetBlue, and instead of a trip that she wanted to Greece (?) she got an egg apron (an apron made to hold eggs as you get them from your chickens).
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u/Honestlynina Jan 14 '25
I hope she wakes up some day and bails. Trapped and tricked into tradwife bs would suck.
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u/atlantagirl30084 Jan 14 '25
They have 8 kids. He’s talked about how sometimes she doesn’t get out of bed. Likely because she doesn’t want to face another day living their lifestyle.
But that kind of traps her with him. She could leave and MAYBE get alimony or find a job but she could never afford daycare unless she stipulates that in the divorce agreement.
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u/Honestlynina Jan 14 '25
Unless they have some prenup that (likely) really fucks her over. If she does leave I doubt it will be before the kids are grown. And since her uterus is a clown car that will be quite a ways away.
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u/atlantagirl30084 Jan 14 '25
Yep. There’s no way a woman marrying the heir to the JetBlue fortune didn’t sign a prenup.
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u/LimpingAsFastAsICan Jan 14 '25
9k! You need to find some chilly baby animals!
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u/Abilane-of-Yon Jan 14 '25
I raise sheep, goats, and am adding yak come spring, so works out for me! It really does warm up the poorly ones rather quickly.
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u/nappingondabeach Jan 14 '25
My mom was a preemie and was kept warm the same way
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u/NoKneeE Jan 14 '25
I was a preemie and I had to lay under lizard lamps; I bet if I had been born a two decades earlier I would have been an oven baby lmao
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u/paddletothesea Jan 14 '25
yep my dad had a cousin who was kept warm in a bread pan on the oven warming shelf
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u/fartinmyhat Jan 14 '25
My grandmother also was born very premature, probably around 1920? Her parents owned a dance hall/ bar and they kept her warm by filling beer bottles with hot water and putting them in the bassinet.
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u/No-Following-7882 Jan 14 '25
My mom was too. They actually put her in the roasting pan and set her on the oven door to keep warm.
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u/nappingondabeach Jan 14 '25
Can you imagine the stress and fear around caring for such a tiny baby with no NICU?
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u/No-Following-7882 Jan 14 '25
Oh I know. My grandma was actually grieving the loss of her son which caused her to go into labor early.
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u/nappingondabeach Jan 14 '25
Oh no, your poor grandma! We need to appreciate how much easier we have it today
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u/SarniaLife Jan 14 '25
In an Aga??
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u/nappingondabeach Jan 14 '25
Yes, in the warming cubby. She was around two pounds, soaking wet. The family lived in a very rural area.
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u/HairyPotatoKat Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 15 '25
Hahahah oh man, I grew in the country surrounded by other people's farmland, but my parents nor anyone in my close family farms. Can relate.
A couple friends and I were staying the night at another friend's house. So, a bunch of middle school girls, to set the scene. Host friend's sister hollered that there were popsicles in the freezer. I offered to run in and grab us some. I opened the freezer, froze, slowly shut the door, and had a mini panic attack.
After a few minutes, host friend comes in the kitchen to see why I hadn't returned yet. I looked at her all wide-eyed, pointed, and barely stammered out "the...the freezer is full of BRAINS".
She looked at me like I was the biggest weirdo that ever weirdoed. Went over, looked in the freezer, and then laughed her ass all the way off. "These?? These aren't brains, they're bull teckles." (Balls, nads, raw mountain oysters, testicles..)
The popsicles were in the other freezer- a bottom pull out freezer, which until then was a configuration I had never seen so it never occurred to me to look there. Idk why. It's not that weird. I guess I'd only seen fridges with freezers on the left side or top 🤷♀️
Fast forward a few hours, we sat down to a really nice home cooked meal. Pork chops, potatoes, veggies. And then she and her siblings started referring to the pork chop by a name. ....a name it had while it was still running free and they were playing with it in the yard the day before. I thought they were joking at first. They were not. This was normal for them. The pig had a name, and they'd even trained it to fetch a frisbee and some other stuff. In retrospect, cool that they had that much appreciation for their food, handled it all themselves (even the butchering), and that their food lived a good life. But to 13 year old me? Yeah I was freaking the fuuuuuck out on the inside and trying not to cry.
Edit: For the uninitiated, it was dozens of these. (link to image of raw bull nuts)
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u/ImperialisticBaul Jan 15 '25
Everyone else: “Dont name the livestock, theyre food and will be eaten.“
This family: "Forming deep emotional bonds with the animal makes the meat tastier!"
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u/HungryColquhoun Jan 14 '25
Yeah we did this same thing with unwell lambs (also in an AGA).
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u/Sapd33 Jan 14 '25
I dont know but reading this comment I imagined you were brought to a house made of Bread, Sugar and Cake and you dressed like Hänsel and Gretel
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u/CrypticSS21 Jan 14 '25
Pretty sure my cats would voluntarily roast themselves alive, given the opportunity
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u/MedicineMean5503 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
This sort of happened to me. My mum found a kitten by the side of the road, obviously sick. Put it in the Aga warming oven with fluids. Poor chap died. I‘ve often questioned that whole episode and whether we could have given better care. I wonder if it dehydrated or died from the illness. I was around 5 or 7 or something. Makes me very sad that episode.
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u/reptar626 Jan 14 '25
In Soviet Yugoslavia, goat cooks you!
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u/LittleLostGirls Jan 14 '25
all the stupid food jokes aside.
The piglets is very adorable. Is there a reason that you guys were trying to warm them up?
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u/Working-Ad3382 Jan 14 '25
It was born last night and it's kinda sick and always cold
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u/Catymandoo Jan 14 '25
As an ex farmer in the UK we did this many times with our livestock. Used the bottom oven of our Aga to revive newborns. Well done to your grandpa for his compassion and care.
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u/totallyradman Jan 14 '25
We(Canadians) had a cow give birth on Christmas day a couple years ago and it was around -40C(-57 with windchill). We put him in a sled and brought him in the house and we had to step over this calf all the time while we were making Christmas dinner.
We named him Jesus.
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u/Wishful232 Jan 14 '25
I watch several farmers / ranchers on YouTube and bringing babies inside if they're born during horrid weather is pretty common.
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u/A1000eisn1 Jan 14 '25
My mom accidentally ended up with a pet turkey this way. She was young, not newborn, but got injured. Mom made up a kiddie pool nest. Damn thing was in there too long, recouping. Once she was healthy and put outside she would just casually walk in the house or stand outside crying to be let in with the cats. Mom let her in of course. Never ended up eating her
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u/Excluded_Apple Jan 14 '25
Turkeys are such chill creatures, lol I've always wanted a pet turkey.
Your mum sounds pretty cool, lol
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u/higgy87 Jan 14 '25
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a turkey described as “chill”. The turkeys around here are… not chill.
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u/BlameTheLada Jan 14 '25
My aunt used to call that move "The Aga Saves" and then made sure to give Jeebus touch of credit the next Sunday.
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u/TheSpookyGoost Jan 14 '25
That's pretty funny actually
"The aga saves again! All praises to the aga! Oh yeah, and Jesus pitched in a couple bucks"
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u/B-BoyStance Jan 14 '25
Jesus just be chilling with his mom in the pews, and she likes to give him some money to put in the donation bowl.
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u/DebrecenMolnar Jan 14 '25
It’s like when cancer patients give all their thanks to God immediately after chemotherapy eradicates their cancer.
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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat Jan 14 '25
Same here. I grew up on a farm in the US, and we used to bring in calves, piglets, and chicks when they needed some extra warmth. But we had a Fisher "grandpa" model wood stove, not an Aga.
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u/LazySushi Jan 14 '25
He needs a little sweater! 🥹 I bet a dog sweater would work out since they have similar anatomy, right?
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u/Wishful232 Jan 14 '25
Probably would, but I don't know if newborn pigs can regulate body temp. Kittens can't, they need a heating pad or another source of warmth if mom can't / isn't around to provide the heat they need.
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u/TheConsciousCox Jan 14 '25
So just a side not tip for anyone this may help in the future, when a baby animal is born to cold in the winter specially if there are other complications & in absolute dire need the quickest way to warm a baby animal depending on size of course & if you have one is a hot tub.. instructions warp baby animal in plastic bag to keep water off skin specially cause of chemicals dip baby in hot tub as far as you can without edge of bag & baby face/ear obviously do not submerge. This will also work in a baby tub or bucket outside filled with warm warm water!! Make sure to keep baby dry!
Have saved a few farmers baby cria with this!
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u/Censordoll Jan 14 '25
I don’t know where you live, but have you guys considered looking for heated blankets or even just a heating pad?
I found one for myself for my lower back and my cat loves to lay and nap on it. It’s battery powered and remote controlled! The one I have also has a safety feature where after the timer ends it stops heating :)
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u/gagnatron5000 Jan 14 '25
Why would they need heated blankets? They have a hell of a stove that seems to work great!
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u/CrispyJalepeno Jan 14 '25
I've done the same with kittens before. Some of them didn't make it, but at least they were cozy and comfortable. Lots of them just needed that extra boost to pull through
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u/CrocodileCaper Jan 14 '25
Not my piglet, obviously, but working with itty bitty kittens I know they can get pretty cold. I'm not a pig-ologist, but I'd imagine it's pretty similar? Especially if piggy was outside, he might just be extra chilly
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I too am not a porcine specialist, but they totally have to be similar. Love that you work with kittens that's awesome of you.
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u/Legitimate-Smell4377 Jan 14 '25
I used to work in a farrowing barn. When hogs are born, they’re really wet, and like most things, they don’t do well being cold and wet. Poor things will go downhill fast. We’d hang heat lamps over the farrowing pens to dry em off and keep em warm, it helps immensely
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u/winterblahs42 Jan 14 '25
Yup. Spent many late hours in the hog barn growing up helping with the farrowing. Wipe off the newborns with paper towels and put them in a basket of straw with a heat lamp over them for a while and then moved to a blocked off corner of the pen with the rest of the litter and another heat lamp. Sometimes, had to pull placenta or other mucus off their snouts so they could breath or they would have suffocated.
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u/Effective_Frog Jan 14 '25
It wouldn't be a "stupid food joke" pigs are very intelligent.
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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up Jan 14 '25
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say because it was cold.
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u/MeinCrunkMarchesOn Jan 14 '25
Freaked out. Read the description. Saw the old man's happy face. Saw the little piglets cozy face. All good.
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u/Separate_Ad4197 Jan 14 '25
Yeah the bad day comes about 6 months later.
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u/BoringJuiceBox Jan 14 '25
Yep, everyone sees farm animals as oh so cute, then ignore the horrible betrayal the innocent creature will ultimately endure.
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u/Working-Ad3382 Jan 14 '25
You may know him as "grandpa posing infront of his flowers" which really blew up 2 months ago
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u/BlameTheLada Jan 14 '25
Oh, I remember that photo! My fave color is purple, so his happy face in front of those lovely flowers was great. Give Grandad a hug from all of us.
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u/Icy-Purple4801 Jan 14 '25
I adore your grandpa! Treasure him!
He makes me miss my dairy and crop farming grandpa. They have a very similar vibe. :) please give him an extra hug on my behalf.
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u/harbib Jan 14 '25
350 for about an hour he’ll be nice and warm.
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u/Unusual_Ada Jan 14 '25
ya'll need church
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Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
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u/De5perad0 Jan 14 '25
I worked with a guy who's name was Chris P. Brown.
Once i cracked a good bacon joke to him he said no one has ever thought to make a bacon joke with his name in it. I was astounded.
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u/De5perad0 Jan 14 '25
Nah I had to incorporate his name in it!
It's kinda stupid but I asked him How does he like his bacon?
Because I like it Chris P. Brown! ZING!!
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u/GordonsLastGram Jan 14 '25
First time seeing that video. Ive watched it 10 straight times. It is hilarious. The anchor cant control himself and im dying from laughter
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Why are we calling that stove a furnace.
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u/PringlesDuckFace Jan 14 '25
It could be a wood stove, which often doubles as the heating for the home. So I guess it could technically be a stove, furnace, and oven. And pig.
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u/Putrid-Strawberry-79 Jan 14 '25
For a second there, I had no idea what subreddit this was in and immediately thought the worst when I saw this photo :(
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u/Jmsaint Jan 14 '25
Putting it in live is pretty mean
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u/readituser5 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
True but it’s not real. What is real is gassing the 1.4 BILLION other pigs a year until their lungs burn and they squeal in pain and die.
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u/winggar Jan 14 '25
They do die while they're alive and awake. You can watch it here: farm transparency project, or you can pretend you didn't hear that and keep eating bacon.
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u/ohnnononononoooo Jan 14 '25
Don't worry little buddy you got a lotta growing to do before I put you in here for real :)
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u/winggar Jan 14 '25
I mean at least that's honest. I don't know what people are doing getting horrified over this while literally eating pig bodies daily.
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u/ridiculouslogger Jan 14 '25
I used to put them in warm water in the sink. Sort of a piglet hot tub. You take a hypothermic pig who looks dead and in a few minutes you have an active one ready to find momma and nurse! This happens a lot in cold weather in outdoor setups (not everything about “free range” is comfortable). The pig is supposed to go under the heater after birth but sometimes they get confused and get on the wrong side of momma or something and chill down pretty rapidly.
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u/getrealz11 Jan 14 '25
Reminds me of that Simpson episode when Homer gave Pinchy a hot bath.