Delilah, one of our Berkshire sows, is due to farrow within the next seven to 10 days. However, I dismantled the farrowing pen in the byre to renovate it. I completed the renovations but was planning to refit the creep and trough last week. It wasn’t to happen. I dislocated and fractured my wrist, bringing [...]
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Tag Archives: Animal welfare
Goodbye to Doris
26 November, 2011
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I’ve just come in from shooting Doris, one of the foundation sows of our Berkshire herd. Doris was an easy sow, had a good life on the croft and paid her way. She was a cracking pig. She was a little thin after she weaned her last litter of piglets in August. She hadn’t regained [...]
Read moreDoris will have to be culled
15 November, 2011
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I’ve just come in from examining Doris, one of our Berkshire pig herd’s foundation sows. Doris failed to regain weight as fast as normal after her last litter of piglets were weaned, so we didn’t put her in with the boar. Instead, we opted to keep her back for a service timed to give us [...]
Read more Curious death of a chicken
8 November, 2011
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One of our Scots Grey pullets died last night. I counted all the chickens out when I opened the pophole to the big hen house this morning. The flock was one short. After walking around to the main door, I opened it and looked in.
Read more‘Why can’t we save the pigs?’
14 October, 2011
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There are times when I find it totally exasperating dealing with people’s queries, especially when they’ve dreamt up a “great idea to save the animals” and want me to endorse it without saying a word about total silliness of said great idea. The most recent of these great ideas, similar to something that first appeared on [...]
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