Getting the pen ready
Once the pen is set up and the plastic laid down, bags of bentonite clay are placed in the ring.
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Spreading the clay
Spreading the clay was a dusty job. Many of the kids pitched in to help get the set-up job done more quickly.
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Mixing the mud
The kids helped mix the clay and water to make the mud for the pig wrestling pen. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Pole Pals - Clean
The Pole Pals had very colorful t-shirts (for awhile!) Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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The Half & Halves
The Half & Halves wave and show their muscles during the calcutta auction. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Bacon Bits
The Bacon Bits costumes came complete with pink noses and curley-que tails on their backsides. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Randy Belton, Fair Board
Fair Board member Randy Belton helped coordinate the event.
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Peeking at the Pigs
The Bacon Bits team couldn't resist taking a peek inside the trailer to see the pigs before the games began.
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Saint Pigs
The guys respectfully changed clothes before taking to the mud after their pig. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Auctioning the Saint Pigs
Bidding was intense for the Saint Pigs, ultimately raising $700 in the Calcutta.
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Started out clean
Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography, and Pam McCullough, Sublette Examiner newspaper photographer, both started out clean. (Note, Tara is also our 2006 Sublette County Fair Royalty Queen.)
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Half N Halves
This team competed in the PeeWee category and got their pig in the barrel in a little over 49 seconds.
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Porkers
The Porkers took 2nd Place in the PeeWee division, getting their pig in the barrel in a little over 24 seconds.
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Chubby Cheeks
The 'Chubby Cheeks' took 3rd place in the PeeWee division.
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Pig Pirates
The Pig Pirates placed 1st in the PeeWee Division. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Pig Pirates
They got their pig in the barrel in a little over 12 seconds.
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Bacon Bits
The Bacon Bits ended up with No Time on their attempt to grab the slippery pig.
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Pole Pals hit the mud
The Pole Pals dive in chasing the pig. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Pig Fighters
The Pig Fighters got their pig in the barrel in a little over 39 seconds.
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Bacon Eaters
The Bacon Eaters got their pig in the barrel in a little over 57 seconds. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Pork Rinds
The Pork Rinds team wore custom-designed t-shirts, which stayed white only briefly. Despite their enthusiastic effort, time ran out before they could get their pig in the barrel. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Pork Rinds
They gave it a hilarious try, but time ran out before the Pork Rinds could get their pig in the barrel.
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Wyoming Piglets
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Pole Pals - Dirty
Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Auctioneer and staff
Auctioneer Gary Nash ran the wrestling event and the calcutta. The event was the culmination of a lot of work by the Fair Board members, the event crew, the Town of Big Piney and volunteer fire department and many others.
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Wyoming Pig Girls
The Wyoming Pig Girls took 1st Place in the competition, getting their pig in the barrel in a little over 15 seconds.
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Pig Cousins
The pig managed to elude the efforts of the Pig Cousins in the alloted time during their turn in the ring.
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Over 40s
The 'Over 40' team wasn't afraid to get in the mud to chase a pig . . .(wait 'till you see the pig THEY got!)
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Daniel Warthogs
The ladies can't believe the bidding war that ultimately went to $1,100 for their team in the calcutta.
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Mudding the pig
The adults got a little bigger pigs, with plenty of mud to make it slippery to add more to the fun.
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Leave Em Oinking
'Leave Em Oinking' took 2nd Place in the Intermediate category of the Pig Wrestling contest. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Over 40 team
The 'Over 40' team go after their pig. They got a huge pig to try to grab.
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Over 40s got their pig
The guys man-handled the pig with the required "butt first!" for a time of a little over 27 seconds. They placed 3rd in the competition.
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Misfits
The Misfits lunge at the pig trying to gat a grip on him, but time ran out before they could get it into the barrel.
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Greased Pig Contest
Kids race for the 2 pigs in the pen during the Greased Pig portion of the event. They must keep and raise the pigs they catch.
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Greased Pig Contest
She caught her pig fairly quickly, but hanging on to it was another story.
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Greased Pig Contest
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Greased Pig Contest
The pigs were too heavy for the kids to lift, so the rules were changed quickly to letting them lift the pigs over with their feet off the ground for the alloted time. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Petting the muddy pig
After the greased pig contest, she pets the pig.
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Greased Pig Contest
Once a kid grabbed one of the two pigs in the pen, the other kids couldn't go after it. Photo by Tara Bolgiano, Blushing Crow Photography.
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Getting Clean
Cleaning off in the Big Piney Fire Department's water bath after pig wrestling.
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Tara-AFTER Pig Wrestling
Photographer Tara Bolgiano AFTER Pig Wrestling. Great job, Tara! (She mentioned something about both her and the camera needing a bath when they got home.) Pam snuck away, so we didn't get her 'after' shot.
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