Tag: hereford pigs
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Feeding Time
Feeding a big group of pigs is like merging onto a motorway full of fast moving trucks whose drivers got their licenses from the dodge-ems at a fair. And all the drivers are half crazed with thirst and my truck is carrying the beer! Happy pigs. My friend Kristy (eatplayloveblog) had Camera House yesterday and was…
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Move along. Move along.
Nothing to see here. And that is exactly what I could see – nothing. I was standing, pigs lunch buckets in my hands, ready to step over the electric fence and join the running throng of young fat pigs, holding the buckets high, merging with the fast moving traffic, trying to get to their bowls before…
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New Grass in November!
The Tweens have had their electric fences taken down and once they got over their electric fence conditioning they moved across the line, where the wire was and began to chow down on the thick grass and clover. To be able to get onto fresh new grass in November is such a bonus. They…
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Farm Stuff
Today I am going to extend the tween piggies paddock by taking down their electric fence and hoping the regular fences will hold out. They have finished all the green feed in center of the field and dug up most of the thistle roots. Time to finish the outer edges. Tane and I will go to…
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Taking the sun
Though it is cold enough for me to be wearing my winter farm jacket now, Poppy’s babies still came out with her today to play in the autumnal sun. Tane and Tima have shifted into their winter home. It will a bit of a jig saw getting everyone a pen in the barns with an…
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