Graham, our four-year-old senior Berkshire boar, has gone lame in his front right leg. There are no obvious injuries, there’s little swelling and his trotter is intact without tears or uneven wear. He was stiff in the joints this winter, but now that the weather has warmed up he had been moving freely again.
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Nipper is definitely going in the pot
20 June, 2008
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I went out to feed the pigs this morning and all was well until I went into the porker’s pen. I’d barely opened the gate when Nipper, one of Daisy’s offspring and 24 weeks old, charged over to head butt and bite me. I drove her off with the feed bucket but it’s confirmed our [...]
Read morePorkers move fields
25 May, 2008
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With the drains and lunch out of the way, it was time to move our Berkshire pigs around. Doris, who is due to farrow in about a fortnight, was getting fed up with sharing a house with two other sows and had to come into the byre. Our four porkers need to move onto fresh [...]
Read moreLooking for a new home
18 December, 2006
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Ginger, our Tamworth boar, is on borrowed time now that we have a pedigree Berkshire boar. Our original intention was to have Ginger slaughtered and turned into bacon and sausages once we’d bred a couple of litters from him.
Read moreEncouraging a prospective vet
17 December, 2006
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I’d held off entering our new piglets into our herd book until today as Louise, a work colleague of the Other Half, was coming over with her daughter Claire. Claire, who is in Secondary 4 (year 11), loves animals and wants to be a vet when she finishes school, so we’d invited her over to [...]
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