I got Bailey back yesterday: approximately 50kg of sausages (pork and apple, pork and leek and plain gluten-free), 10kg of minced pork and 4 leg joints! I had originally intended to get just sausages and mince, as older boars, especially those who have been used as working boars, have a very strong flavour which can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bailey’
5 Oct
All change!
Yesterday turned out to be a mammoth pig moving day, which just goes to show how much I have changed. Gone are the days when I couldn’t move one ark by myself … yesterday, I moved two! Pinky, Curly and the piglets had run out of grass. It might have looked as though they still [...]
1 Oct
Getting ready to say goodbye to Bailey
It’s an early start this morning as I’m taking Bailey to the abattoir in a few hours. After my last blog post on the subject, they rang me and said I could have a slot on their first “pig day” since reopening. Today is the day. I’m dreading it. But I can’t afford to keep [...]
28 Sep
Fun in the sun!
Yesterday was one of those days that flew by, the kind that you wish you could preserve, re-visit, or hold in time forever. Ok, so it wasn’t the best start, as the runt of Pinky’s litter died in the night, but I knew that was coming and given how weak he was, despite my best [...]
6 Sep
What a day!
As days go, yesterday was one of those… It started well enough, a bit chilly, but not enough to make me want to put a jumper on. Why would you, when the sun was shining bright in the sky for the first time in, well, ages?! I started feeding the pigs, but only made it [...]
11 Aug
Bad, bad, BAD pigs!
Tia may well be one of my favourite pigs, but she’s currently very close to booking herself a one-way ticket to the abattoir. Well, that’s what I was muttering to myself last night, anyway. Why? Because the little madam (accompanied by Bailey but I know who the ring leader was) decided to break out of [...]
9 Aug
Bailey: intrepid explorer
I moved Tia and Bailey’s electric netting yesterday to give them some fresh ground, which they were thrilled with. The fence now goes round a rather boggy patch, which is wet but extremely fertile. Tia went round. Bailey decided to go through… That’s my boy!
30 Jul
Looking back at (a sunny) July 2008
I seem to have lost my blogging mojo so I thought I’d post some photos from last year, back when the sun was something warm, comforting and familiar, not a distant memory like it has been this July! Maybe August will see the sun return – and with it, my blogging inspiration!
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