Just before lunch, the Other Half drove us to Inverurie so I could buy a 12mm HSS bit to bore new holes in the steel creep. (Fortunately, today is a school holiday in our part of Scotland.) With the new bit, and a chip butty tucked away, I was able to resume work on the [...]
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Tag Archives: Berkshire pigs
Smile for the camera
11 January, 2012
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What can I put on the blog today? Sunrise? Done that. Sunset? Done that. Land Rover? Done that? Vegetable crops? Too soon. Snow? Not happening. Hmm. I know, I’ll go and take a photo of our Berkshire boar. To make it different, I’ll get in low and close, really close, really really close. Then I’ll [...]
Read more Cleaning up after pigs
12 December, 2011
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After a pleasant morning writing a short story for A174 Writing Fiction and a delicious, early lunch of leftover pasta, I thought I’d better get stuck into crofting work for the afternoon. Well, except that everything was too frozen for me to get stuck.
Read more Aiming for a spring litter
3 December, 2011
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Gus, our Berkshire boar, has had one of the sows, Delilah, in with him for more a fortnight now. We’ve not seen any activity but are hoping for a litter at the end of February with weaning at the end of April. It may happen. It may not.
Read more 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 [...]
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