Aside from being good to eat, there are are other uses for pigs. Clearing land is one of them. Seven rare breed pigs have returned for a second year to help restore heathland at a Leicestershire beauty spot. The three-month-old Welsh pigs are helping to clear unwanted species such as bracken, sycamore and birch scrub [...]
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Archive | June, 2011
The very picture of contentment
20 June, 2011
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Doris, one of our Berkshire sows, is one very contented pig. Two-Legs supply her with food, water, bedding and…
Read morePredator has piglet for dinner
16 June, 2011
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I found the remains of this Berkshire piglet hidden beneath a bush this afternoon. The carcass was lying to one side of a circle of flattened grass where something had sat or laid as it ate the piglet. The odds are that a fox took the piglet while it was outside the hut and carried [...]
Read moreSpam, spam, spam
15 June, 2011
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In five days the blog filter has stopped 1,006 spam comments. In five days my email filter has stopped 643 spam emails. I can’t be bothered looking through them for genuine ones. If you haven’t heard from me, that’s probably why. Otherwise, I’m just being a lazy git and shifting the blame to spammers.
Read more Sow tears piglet’s ear
14 June, 2011
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I checked Doris’s litter of Berkshire piglets just after noon today and all were well. I went back at 2.30pm and discovered she’d stepped on one. Fortunately, the piglet was still alive and had no life-threatening injuries. Unfortunately, its ear was almost completely severed. The injury had occurred at least an hour earlier as it [...]
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