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Chubby Piggies
The Seven little piglets I rescued three nights ago are finally looking OK. I still go out to their little den in the Turkey House every 2 hours and lift them up to have a drink. They were so weak and wobbly yesterday but by early this morning I could definitely feel weight gain and…
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A Dalek to the rescue
The New Little piglets are still alive. They are drinking and wobbling about. They are not being given back to their mother. When Tahiti calmed down I went in and removed seven piglets bodies and parts of bodies. I tell you this so you know why I have decided to try to raise the surviving…
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A disaster for Tahiti
Tahiti gave birth to her piglets last night and has turned out to be the worst kind of mother. She had killed three by the time I even got to the barn. It was terrible. I managed to calm her so the babies could drink and we sat like that for a while but the moment…
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Catch a breath
… while I gather my words. Isn’t it interesting how we are always having to re-configure our lives. Life is like a tide, it is always on the move either going in or coming back out but always on the move. We have to move with it too or we drown. God, what an exhausting…
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A Day Off Pigs
Finally, yesterday, the heat broke and we had a lovely ordinary busy day. The pigs and piglets napped in the sun. We made sweetcorn relish, and bread and croqueta. And Summer Sauce (basically I chuck everything we picked on that day into the slow cooker and cook it for hours). The sauce is partially blended, cooled,…
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