Posts about our Berkshire pigs in 2010.
‘You don’t need to worm’ (Why and how we worm our pigs)
A quick guide to Oinkese (Talking pig)
A hazard of the job (One of the many dangers of farming)
Should I call ours ‘micropigs’?
Berkshire weaners for sale (January 2010)
Appalling lack of skills and care
More realism needed on pig prices
What have we here? (Daphne farrows, February 2010)
Neither a prophet nor a masseur of egos (Pigs are not a factory made product)
£25 and I’ll reply faster (Anwering pig queries)
Piglet taken ill(Mystery ailment strikes piglets, March 2o10)
Piglet collapsed, had to shoot it
Piglet autopsies prove inconclusive
Piglets have veterinary lab puzzled
Still no definitive results on dead piglets
Lab can’t isolate infective agent
The wait continues (Results of lab tests on dead piglets)
Something doesn’t add up (Costs of pig keeping, June 2010)
“ ‘ello gorgeous…” (Wallows)
The dumb blonde of Berkshires…
No, we’re not at the Turriff Show
Farrowing: a long day’s work (Doris farrows, (August 2010)
Growing fast and looking for buyers (Weaners for sale, August 2010)
I really should just take the money…
Abattoir acts to discourage private slaughter
Not the best of litters (Daisy farrows, October 2010)
Goodbye to Graham (Culling our senior boar)
Growing well despite the cold (Berkshires in temperatures of -20C)
Berkshire gilts for sale (December 2010)
‘Are you sure this is my best side?’
‘Is it him? Is it?’ (Piglets have Christmas, too)




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