more land, more moss, more digging!
Our boys have done a great job digging up their run. Too good a job, and the clay soil mixed with a good lashing of Cumbrian rain has made a really good mud bath, complete with slippery slopes for skidding on in wellies.
So, we decided that expansion was the only plan. We are very lucky that the garden next to ours is large, overgrown with scrub and brambles and in need of rotavating. And our boys are the best rotavators ever.
Sam and Ben spent a day fencing off part of the new area and laying logs around the bottom of the fence to ward off any more escape attempts.
Then we opened up a gate from their run into the new undug area. They were a bit hesitant at first, and surprisingly it was little Gary who made the first moves to explore.
They are now enjoying their new 'day centre' - we feed them back in their run every evening and then shut the gate, just to minimise escape risks! - and are doing really well with their rotavating task. They seem to be concentrating on the mossy areas first, I'm not sure what they find or eat down there, but they will quite happily stick their whole head under a carpet of moss, before jerking upwards to send moss, roots, leaves etc flying.
On their first evening in 'pig dig heaven' I went down after work to see how they were getting on, and was rather disappointed when I was greeting only briefly by Gary and pretty much completely ignored by Minty. But the low level grunting noises and the continuous digging gives an impression of very happy pigs, I'm sure they'll get back to biting my wellies and snout-butting me for food once they've got over the excitment.
So, we decided that expansion was the only plan. We are very lucky that the garden next to ours is large, overgrown with scrub and brambles and in need of rotavating. And our boys are the best rotavators ever.
Sam and Ben spent a day fencing off part of the new area and laying logs around the bottom of the fence to ward off any more escape attempts.
Then we opened up a gate from their run into the new undug area. They were a bit hesitant at first, and surprisingly it was little Gary who made the first moves to explore.
They are now enjoying their new 'day centre' - we feed them back in their run every evening and then shut the gate, just to minimise escape risks! - and are doing really well with their rotavating task. They seem to be concentrating on the mossy areas first, I'm not sure what they find or eat down there, but they will quite happily stick their whole head under a carpet of moss, before jerking upwards to send moss, roots, leaves etc flying.
On their first evening in 'pig dig heaven' I went down after work to see how they were getting on, and was rather disappointed when I was greeting only briefly by Gary and pretty much completely ignored by Minty. But the low level grunting noises and the continuous digging gives an impression of very happy pigs, I'm sure they'll get back to biting my wellies and snout-butting me for food once they've got over the excitment.
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