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The girls decide
Have to run – we are leaving for the Bantam Swap early so here are yesterdays pics. What is wrong with those pictures? Naughty opportunistic pigs taking advantage of high winds and broken gates. And combine without fuss. And as they will be ten months in three weeks and are quite big enough, according to my…
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Fingerprints on my Clouds
Clouds are like fingerprints. There are never two the same. And they make a mark on the day. Today the peafowl went up to their spring quarters. This is so they do not devour an entire vegetable garden in a sitting which they can and have done in the past. So they stay in their…
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Possibly Poppy.
I have three entries in my diary – all possible farrowing dates for Poppy. They read. April 04 – Possibly Poppy. April 25 – Possibly Poppy. May 17 – Possibly Poppy. I don’t think it will be April 04. Poppy and all the other female pigs were extremely agitated and excitable yesterday. I watched them…
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Is that the big pig?
I had been telling Inaki about my big pig. And as I introduced him to all the animals he was interested to meet this well loved Big Pig. – Is that the Big Pig? said Inaka looking at Manu my one year old Hereford boar. I told him that no that was not the big…
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The Summer People
My summer people have begun to arrive. Yesterday I picked up Inaki. (And the traffic was terrible both ways so Boo and I spent HOURS in the car – Ton had to stay home because he had been playing with a skunk in the night). Inaki is from the Basque region of Spain, he is delightful, strong and…
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Tane the Terrible
I got distracted. That’s all I can say in my defense. I came out of the field and put the bucket down, why I do not know. I always take the eggs straight to the kitchen. But yesterday the eggs were left in a bucket at the gate. Fifteen eggs, the afternoons haul. I set…
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