long time, big pigs, hard work!
I know, i know, its been ages since I last posted! (i've given up trying to get Sam or Val to do any posts!). The pigs had a great xmas, and really got into the swing of the season....
They have been on a healthy new year diet of as much extra raw veg peelings and scraps as they can eat. Now they are bigger they seem to be less fussy, and happily munch down leek leaves, potato peelings, carrot peelings and our neighbours over-sporouted cabbages which were generously donated to the bacon cause!
We didn't get any snow up here when the rest of the country was happily having snowball fights and sledging on tea trays, it did get very frosty though which was good as all the mud froze and went hard which made it easier to walk in the pig area. Unfortunatly the hose-pipe also froze, so we had to carry buckets of water down by hand.
They are getting incredibly big boys now - I'll post up some recent photos movies this weekend. Looking at Minty's back leg, its exactly the same shape and size as a whole parma ham (which is what one of them will become!). We have to keep thinking of them like this - as joints of pork, sausages, bacon etc, so that we are prepared for the next phase. We are getting a bit concerned over the exact timing of P-day, so we're posting on some of our favourite forums for advice - too big and their hormones might taint the meat, too small and we're doing ourselves out of an extra sausage or two...
More soon!
They have been on a healthy new year diet of as much extra raw veg peelings and scraps as they can eat. Now they are bigger they seem to be less fussy, and happily munch down leek leaves, potato peelings, carrot peelings and our neighbours over-sporouted cabbages which were generously donated to the bacon cause!
We didn't get any snow up here when the rest of the country was happily having snowball fights and sledging on tea trays, it did get very frosty though which was good as all the mud froze and went hard which made it easier to walk in the pig area. Unfortunatly the hose-pipe also froze, so we had to carry buckets of water down by hand.
They are getting incredibly big boys now - I'll post up some recent photos movies this weekend. Looking at Minty's back leg, its exactly the same shape and size as a whole parma ham (which is what one of them will become!). We have to keep thinking of them like this - as joints of pork, sausages, bacon etc, so that we are prepared for the next phase. We are getting a bit concerned over the exact timing of P-day, so we're posting on some of our favourite forums for advice - too big and their hormones might taint the meat, too small and we're doing ourselves out of an extra sausage or two...
More soon!
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