limbo - the 'no pig' part of the project
Well, b-day has been and gone. We currently don't have any pigs.
It actaully wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. The boys were exemplary behaved, trotted out of the trailer, followed Sam and I down the path to their holding pen, and then just stood there sniffing about at all the new smells and looking up at with a 'where's breakfast then?' look on their faces. They weren't stressed at all, which is a good thing. We said our goodbyes and left them being looked over by a lady in Wellies from Defra.
I went off to work, and Sam went back to disinfect the trailer and then remove all the fences and generally tidy-up the garden a bit.
I did feel a bit sad, in fact a bit guilty would be a better description. They were so trusting, so friendly to us, so well behaved on their last day. But I know they had a great life with loads of room to run around and dig in, good food and lots of attention and fuss, which is a lot more than most pigs you see as packs of bacon get.
We now wait for the weekend when we go and pick up 2 x halves of Gary and 2x halves of Minty and the big butchering weekend starts!
It actaully wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. The boys were exemplary behaved, trotted out of the trailer, followed Sam and I down the path to their holding pen, and then just stood there sniffing about at all the new smells and looking up at with a 'where's breakfast then?' look on their faces. They weren't stressed at all, which is a good thing. We said our goodbyes and left them being looked over by a lady in Wellies from Defra.
I went off to work, and Sam went back to disinfect the trailer and then remove all the fences and generally tidy-up the garden a bit.
I did feel a bit sad, in fact a bit guilty would be a better description. They were so trusting, so friendly to us, so well behaved on their last day. But I know they had a great life with loads of room to run around and dig in, good food and lots of attention and fuss, which is a lot more than most pigs you see as packs of bacon get.
We now wait for the weekend when we go and pick up 2 x halves of Gary and 2x halves of Minty and the big butchering weekend starts!
Labels: pigs
2 Comments:
Any news... an update is a little overdue!
Do post back with how you got on.
I've just pulled my first prosciutto out after a month under a mountain of salt - it's all very exciting.
My gammons are all done and my ears have been ringing with praise after I've been handing out free bacon at the office!
Bump!
I do hope everything went ok?
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