Friday, 9 March 2012

Expansion plans for the growning brood

When you are blessed with 16 piglies in one go that is quite a considerable growth in the size of brood you are dealing with on a daily basis. 

As a consequence we have had to expand not only our pig compound but also our sleeping accommodation.  Paul spotted an advert on e-Bay for some Pig houses and we decided the extra flexibility that it would offer would be a real asset.  It means we can more easily move it around the field so the plan is in the summer to move the sows around and give our primary pig compound a much needed rest.

However, as you can see from this pictureit is quite large, much too large for Paul's trailer as it turns out.  Luckily the people we bought it from up near Daglingworth were immensely kind and allowed us to borrow their trailer to transport it back to Cleveland House.  They were so kind to take pity upon us novices and was a really practical demonstration of how phenomenal the spirit of commaraderie is amongst "pig people"!

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