Our New Life in the Country: It's a hard life.......

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

It's a hard life.......

It's a hard life being a piggy on this farm.....

...You have to find your own hollow, grab a friend to cuddle up with and have a nap in the sunshine.

Pesky folk with cameras come and catch you unawares.......

...so you get up and have a good scratch.

And then, to top it all, dinner is delivered and you just have to get stuck in.....

...fight off a bit of competition for the best bits...

...and only then do you get chance to settle down ready for another little snooze before bedtime. It really is all go!!

Introducing our four little three month old Middle Whites, busy little girls.

Sue xx

9 comments:

Gem21 June 2011 at 12:10
Welcome to the family : ) It certainly looks like a hard life haha. They are adorable though, soooo cute xxx
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gz21 June 2011 at 12:37
:D
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Jane and Chris21 June 2011 at 13:09
Busy and pretty.
Jane x
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Lavender Rabbit21 June 2011 at 15:10
Love the little piggy yawn! So cute!!
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Sandies' Patch21 June 2011 at 16:49
Cuties!
At least you know theyr'e having a good life.

Sandie xx
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Martin and Amy21 June 2011 at 18:34
How cute. I've just posted a picture of a similar pig, I think it's the same breed on my blog. I took the picture at the Royal Show a few years back.

Which breed are they?

Thanks!

Martin :0)
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Sue22 June 2011 at 06:53
Yes, they're having a brilliant life Sandie, when they first came onto the farm they had never lived outdoors and they have learned to love it very quickly.

They had their first wallow made for them yesterday in the sunshine and they took to it, well like pigs to mud!!

All our pigs are rare breeds Martin, these particular ones are Middle Whites. Famous for their squashed faces and large prick ears, lots of folk think they are the ugliest of the rarebreeds, but I think they have crossed the line back into beauty.

Sadly these are the last pigs that will come onto the farm,we are in the process of becoming pig free by September, watch the Blog for more news.

Sue xx
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Susan T22 June 2011 at 08:04
I think if I came back on earth as an animal I would have to be a pig, sounds a damn good life over there on your farm. Mind you I only see the good bits I know. I don't see all the toil.
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Martin and Amy23 June 2011 at 18:33
Pig free! :(

I love the look of the Middle Whites.

Thanks for answering my question!

Martin :0)
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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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