Our New Life in the Country: Moving day for the Kune Kunes

Friday, 21 January 2011

Moving day for the Kune Kunes

This picture was taken before they got muddy, they've been black all week this week after digging in the mud.

Today we are (hopefully) moving the Kune Kunes to the comfort of the wood store in the barn. Their little patch of England has turned into a mud bath and I am not able to be in with them as much as I would like to because of this. ~

So if it all goes well tonight they should be sleeping indoors and have a new better draining play area outside......first comes the difficult bit...... have you ever tried walking three little pigs past lots of grass when they haven't had any to eat for ages!!

Brrr....it's still cold here!

Sue xx

6 comments:

Anonymous21 January 2011 at 08:47
Yes I have tried that! It makes me anxious just to think about it.

Those (beautiful) 'primitive' pigs are not docile and easily led. Good luck!
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Claire21 January 2011 at 10:34
Only tried making one boar go in the right direction and that was hard enough, never mind three! Good luck!
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Jane and Chris21 January 2011 at 14:16
The growth rate of the "little" pigs is incredible!!
Jane x
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BadPenny21 January 2011 at 17:09
No - can't say I have !
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Serenata21 January 2011 at 19:54
Have fun with the pigly moving - it can be quite difficult!

The poly tunnel is looking great, you have been working hard.
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Anonymous22 January 2011 at 13:45
They are so cute - always wanted Kune Kunes!

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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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