After a few months without pigs, we went and collected our four new Oxford Sandy and Blacks on 9th of March. One sow and three of her piglets.
Plunky (short for Kerplunk) is from the same bloodline as Polly (our previous sow) and is just as friendly, but doesn't seem to dig as much. She's more ginger and a bit leaner. She was running with a boar for a couple of weeks before she arrived on the farm, so hopefully in just over 3 months time she will have more piglets.
The three piglets are Plunkys offspring and were born the first week in January. They'd never been outside before so it's great to see them rooting around in the grass. They soon learnt not to touch the electric fence too!
Keeping pigs is very enjoyable and once you know the rules and regulations, the time and costs involved etc, they are relatively easy animals to look after. We run pig keeping days to give people the knowledge and confidence to decide if pig keeping is for them. We also run sausage making courses and a curing and smoking day using the meat from our pigs. It's good to get a group of people together who are as passionate about high welfare animal husbandry and food as we are.
The three piglets are Plunkys offspring and were born the first week in January. They'd never been outside before so it's great to see them rooting around in the grass. They soon learnt not to touch the electric fence too!
