Our New Life in the Country: Last Day on the Farm

Thursday 25 August 2011

Last Day on the Farm

Today is the last day on the farm for Maud and her thirteen little tearaways. She is being a brilliant Mum, keeping them in order, introducing them to new foods day by day and taking them for walks around the orchard when they get too boisterous, something I've never seen done before to get piglets into order, but I suppose needs must when you have so many to control.

They still crash out in their favourite hollow, but now they fill it to the top, they have grown so much in their three short weeks, the boys play fight with each and they all explore every nook and cranny of their surrounding area, nibbling at undergrowth (and hosepipes) and visiting the other pigs in their pens.

I'll be sad to see Maud go, of all our pigs she is the most gentle, the only one that wouldn't dream of pushing and jostling me for the bucket, she is calm and laid back and likes nothing more than a back rub and a tickle behind the ears, she eats carefully out of my hand and will trot quite happily beside me until I decide where to pour her food.

Maud aged 4 months back in October 2009.

Tomorrow she leaves for her new home at Fallowfields Country House Hotel, where she will be joined on Saturday morning by her sister Martha. They have many happy years to come, living in wonderful surroundings with people that care and lots more lovely babies to nurture.

Sue xx

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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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