This is the layout for the expanding pigsty.
The pigsty on the right, which was so carefully constructed, will be demolished except for the foundation.
This area is where the mother pigs will stay. Piglets up to one month old will also stay with them.
The caretaker's hut is on the left.
The lower part is the piglet pen where the piglets are kept until they are ready for shipment.
Today's work involves assembling the reinforcing bars that will form the pillars.
The tools are also handmade.
They're bending rebar by driving several nails into a coconut tree stump.
The process of assembling the pillars.
Construction began with the second pigpen, intended for the piglets.
They are transporting the completed pillars.
There are four on the longer side.
On the shorter side, a single pillar stands in the middle.
There's nothing in it when the photo is taken, but there's gravel laid underneath.
Then it is solidified with cement.
A row of pillars.
This sheep has been here for a few days now.
I thought they would raise sheep along with the pigs, but...
In the Philippines, it is a long-standing custom to perform a ceremony before erecting a pillar.
They apparently kill sheep and use their blood as a foundation.
Gigi places a coin worth about 30 pesos into each base and then goes around pouring lamb's blood over them.
The sheep became part of our dinner.