lost tags... first one and now two!

Slightly alarming discovery yesterday, Gary our littlest of the piglets has a hole and a rip in his ear where his ear tag used to be. There was a bit of blood splattered on the roof of the pig house and his little ear did look a bit sore. We'd sprayed it with some iodine, which he didn't seem to mind at all and puzzled over what could have wrenched the tag out with such force.

Take two - now Minty's lost his ear tag as well. Great going guys, you've been here two days and your already tagless. Although Minty just has a clean hole where the tag was, no rip. Minty also did a great demonstration today of potential ear-tag removing behaviour - a lot of scratching! He leans himself up against whatever he can find, (the fence, the edge of his house, Bryan's wellies...) and scratches his back like mad. So we're guessing they both caught their ears against a fence whilst doing some serious back scratching.
More iodine, no more tags left to loose, we think they'll be ok.