Our New Life in the Country: Piggy News

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Piggy News

Breakfast time in the barn.

The pigs are now well and truly settled in their winter quarters. They have made the barn into a real home for themselves and now that the outside space is all fenced off with the new electric fencing they are in piggy heaven.

They spend many happy hours digging all the deep rooted weeds out of the ground, something we are extremely grateful for. They can turn the picture above into the picture below in a couple of days.

They have until the weather turns nice again to get this bit of land under control for us. Lovely Hubby is going to use this area as part of his new worm venture, and will be building the worm beds here in the late spring/early summer of this year.

We use the little ante room of the barn to store the bedding and pig food as well as our chopped wood for the house.

And after a morning of digging for those tasty roots and weeds, the girls troop back to their cosy bedroom for a nice little siesta, after all it will be tea time later and they will need their energy to eat again.

Sue xx

5 comments:

Hen19 January 2010 at 12:08
Aw, they're so cute! We were watching a DVD of the Darling Buds of May last night, the one where Pop gets some pigs - 200! We used to love visiting a nearby pig farm in Somerset but sadly it closed. We'll have nowhere to take our windfalls this year...
Hen x
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Anonymous19 January 2010 at 17:38
Flipping pigs! Ours seem to exhaust the carefully laid out areas provided for them in no time flat. Got to start all over again with mine...

Still love 'em though and it's great to see yours, mainly because they look a lot less mischevious than ours!
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Sue @ Smiffy's Blog19 January 2010 at 17:59
Oh Sue, I hadn't realised that they like to dig so much! They seem to love their new home too. Sue x
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A Bun Can Dance19 January 2010 at 21:22
Aah your pigs are gorgeous, Sue!
Seeing them in their barn reminds me of my childhood and we had a pigsty attached to a barn and I used to love going in to rub the hair tough skin of that great big sow! Not to mention the delight of little piggies coming indoors to warm near the fire....
Happy days to you
Denise x
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BadPenny19 January 2010 at 21:46
bless 'em - a little digging - a siesta, food & bed

Pigs in Heaven !
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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