Timatanga Moana, who rode home from the KuneKune farm on my lap. Cuddled into the crook of my arm. For two hours. This image was taken from the back seat of the jeep by The Matriarch. It is way too gorgeous to look at only once. Who ever thought a wee piggie would sit on my knee that long.
She is small, small enough to lay in my lap with plenty of room left over. She is chubby and smiley, has short legs and tiny tiny hooves and plods about the floor making a sound that is a cross between a purr and a small tank engine chuff. When I scratch her belly she slides to the ground and makes a whistly song. Her long soft hair is a tortoiseshell mixture. Red, black and white. She is set up in the Snug with a bed of hay, a bucket to hide in (Poppy now reverses into her barrel and sleeps with her snout poking out.. so cute) and her food and water and a heater. Each time she comes out for a walk we go a little further. I don’t want her senses to overload. She will become anxious. I love her calm friendliness.
Her family lives out in the fields in North-West Illinois. Here is her father. The one on the left.
Here is her mother. 
And this is her Aunty.
The whole lot were very tame and very sweet. Living out in pastures with little shelters. These are tough pigs. They have a very.. um.. distinctive look!
This is Tima (pronounced just like Tina). When we finally went into the nursery to see the little ones, the litter hid in the corner under their warm light. I slowly sunk down onto my heels to take a picture and one little piggie disengaged herself from the others and very slowly sniffed her way across the room to me. She reached up and touched my knee with her nose, regarded me for a moment with a clear brown eyed gaze, then continued on to have a drink of water. The others cowered in silence against the wall watching. “Which one is ours?” said John softly from the door. “This one,” said the breeder and I at the same time,the camera forgotton, watching her have a drink before leaving home. I had chosen her from a photo weeks ago and she had chosen me yesterday morning. Magic.
Timatanga loosely means beginnings and Moana means the sea or the water, they are not meant to mean anything when put together, just a first name and a second name, like Cecilia Mary. I love the sound of the words too. We will call her Tima.
She will stay inside until the weather is warmer, she comes to her name when called and Boo has got over his excitement. He is way too excited about this little pig and spent all last night lying in front of her closed door.
And now I had better get busy. My days are filling up but I have planned every new event to have a consolidation break in between. Next will be the plonkers (Their milk is ready!!) and Queenie’s calf. I wonder who will be first! I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
72 responses to “Tima”
What an adorable little piggy.
Yet another beautiful addition to your farm family. welcome little Tima.
I can see it now – Tima on one knee and Poppy on the other 😉
I need to grow bigger knees! my diet is obviously all wrong. c
Once Poppy teaches Tima to climb you’ve had it 🙂
Og gooness! She’s absolutely gorgeous. And from the first moment, it sounds as though she was meant to be yours. It’s uncanny how they just “know” things. And we humans think we are so darn clever. 🙂
Welcome, Tina to the piggy equivalent of a five star hotel – with your own servant!
And of couse I should put on my glasses BEFORE pressing “Post Comment”. I meant “Oh” not “og” and of course I know her name is Tima!
No problem Marie, I do it more often than Not! Is it warmer up there now? I hope you are warming up.. we have sun today! SUN!!.. c
Too cute for words, c. Congratulations to the farmy!
Welcome Tima and well done miss C – you came home with only one 🙂 🙂 Laura
boo is as excited as i am! you are surrounded by cuteness!
Oh Celi, I am green with envy… always wanted a little kune kune – she is adorable…. how to choose between her and Poppy – what a glorious menagerie you have…. Hope Boo doesn’t get too frustrated … he has a vocation !!!
Oh what a cutie! Almost makes me want one, but I will be content “oohing and awing” over her pictures. Thank you for sharing her with us. Of course Boo Nanny is on the job — just wonder what he is thinking some days.
I love how the farmy is expanding this spring. 🙂
It is happening! We will push the boundaries this summer.. literally.. morning Veronica.. c
Too cute…her Mum is not very pretty though. I had a visit from our neighbour’s pet cinghiale yesterday. She is growing into a fine piggie.
I love the look on her mothers face, she seems to be laughing at her own jokes!.. c
You can read stories to her as you would to any new baby; how about the “Three Little Pigs?”
Tima’s family look like a cross between Ewoks and pigs, with their furry faces and ears. Very endearing, and heaps of personality. Darling Sheila may have to raise her game, the porcine superstar of the Farmy has competition!
Ewoks, I knew there was a resemblance niggling at me, they look cheeky too! morning kate. has your calendar arrived yet? should not be too far away.. c
my first thought was ewok too…..a sweet little ewok.
Not yet :-(. I check the mailbox every day, hoping for my Sheila-fix. I’m off on leave tomorrow for nearly 3 weeks, so I hope it arrives before I go, otherwise it’ll sit on the neighbour’s table waiting till I get home…
poo.. c
She is adorable. I think I am in love with her and it is obvious she is in love with you already!
What an adorable little pig!!! My 4-yr-old has spent the last several weeks telling us she wants her own pet and after seeing Tima’s picture announced, “Ahhhh!! I want a little pig like that for my pet.” May need the name and number of your Kune Kune breeder 🙂
I will breeding my own in a year or so! Tell your 4 year old to hang on just a teensy bit longer!..
I’ll tell her 🙂