Yesterday was not a Good Day. I took two loads of pigs to the abattoir, Curly, Pinky and Perky in the first load, then Tia and Scrumpy. I pick the meat up on Friday. Brini and Fergie were saved, because Fergie is too small and Brini makes an ideal companion for her as she is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tia’
10 Dec
Remember when …
… the sun was shining and the grass was green? No, me neither. Unbelievably, this was taken just three weeks ago: All that green is now a sea of mud into which the pigs sink. On a dryish day it tickles their knees. When it’s raining, it laps at their bellies. Apparently, we’re having a [...]
5 Nov
A blustery November!
It’s a windy but sunny day today, what a change from all the rain we’ve been having. I’m seriously thinking about buying some lifejackets and arm bands for the pigs, just in case! Mind you, the rain did hold off long enough earlier this week for me to move both the piglets and the adults [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
19 Aug
Happy birthday to Pinky, Perky and Fergie!
Today is Pinky, Perky and Fergie’s first birthday. It seems like a long time ago that I was sitting in the stable with Tia as she farrowed. All in all, I saw all but two of her piglets being born. Looking at the remaining three today, I struggle to believe that they were ever this [...]
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 [...]
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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