Having bought some new straw on Sunday, I cleaned out the piglets’ ark, a necessary task every few days as they’re still being toilet trained. Although they tend to go to the loo outside, they do go inside as well, presumably at night – especially with all this rain bucketing it down! So, having cleaned [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pig ark’
30 Aug
Bloomin rain!
Yet again, it’s raining. Which isn’t necessarily news, at least not for my British readers, as I suspect you’re all in the same position as me, having more or less lived in my waterproofs and wellies for the past two months. In fact, I haven’t needed to water the veggie garden since June! In fact, [...]
29 Aug
How things change in a year!
Today is my blog’s first birthday and the 12 months since I sat with Jennie in her sitting room setting up the blog seem to have flown by. So much so, that it’s only by looking back at the photos from the past year that I’m reminded of how much has happened and changed in [...]
16 Jun
A hot day for moving the pigs!
If I had known quite how hot it was going to be yesterday, I probably wouldn’t have moved Perky, Fergie, Brini and Scrumpy – and not just the pigs, but their ark as well! Their old patch was looking bare and forlorn so moving them onto fresh ground seemed like a great plan, not just [...]
20 Apr
Moving the pigs
Well, yesterday was gorgeous, wasn’t it? We had wonderfully hot sunshine that was complemented with a delightfully cool breeze, perfect weather for taking the dogs to the beach and enjoying an ice cream. So instead, Jennie and I decided to move not one, but two pig arks, which means two lots of straw, four rubber [...]
9 Mar
Round-up
It’s been a busy few days Wormed the pigs this week. Used the injection Ivomectin, which does internal worms and external parasites. Stabbed myself as well several times, so I’m covered. Not easy to inject “under the skin” when your pigs don’t have very loose skin. Add that to the self-injecting and next time, I’m [...]
12 Feb
Happy pigs!
Waking up to a second day of sunshine, I took the bull by the horns (or should that be the boar by the tusks?) and moved Bailey and Tia onto a new patch of grass. In the end, I didn’t move them to where I wanted as the penny finally dropped that I’ve got another [...]
16 Dec
Getting to know the neighbours
Ever since I moved the pigs into their field, there’s been an abundance of wildlife, mainly birds, taking advantage of the freshly turned up earth and lashings of manure to secure themselves a snack or two. As autumn turned to winter, the birds have descended en masse and are now so confident around me that [...]
13 Sep
What a wonderful morning
It’s half nine in the morning, I have a fresh mug of coffee, I’m sat outside with the laptop (we lurve wireless!), the sun is shining (only downside is that laptop screen visibility is rather poor), the birds are singing, the dogs are playing (far from me which is nice as they have a very [...]
3 Sep
Hard at work
Although I still can’t find any of the accessories to take my photos off my phone and put them on the computer, I thought you’d appreciate a laugh at some of the photos Craig took on the day we put the pig arks together…
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