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Free-range pork? Only if it’s cheap

18 October, 2012 by Stonehead 4 Comments

BBC News is reporting animal welfare campaigners want to encourage consumers to buy more free-range pork in the same way they’re trying to encourage free-range chicken. What the BBC fails to report is experiences like ours: customers say they want the higher welfare free-range pork (or indeed chicken) but when it comes to putting their […]

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Why the surprise that pigs ate farmer?

2 October, 2012 by Stonehead 0 Comments

The British media is making much of news from the United States that pigs ate a farmer. Authorities in Oregon are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his own pigs after his partially-consumed remains were discovered in an enclosure on his farm. Terry Vance Garner, 69, never returned after he set out to feed […]

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Poor season means ‘wonky’ veg

29 September, 2012 by Stonehead 1 Comment

The customer-led obsession with perfect fruit and vegetables continues to mystify me but it may have suffered a short-term hiccup. Today, the Telegraph reported that wonky or blemished fruit and vegetables would return to supermarket shelves thanks to the very poor growing season. Bent courgettes and wonky potatoes will be sold in supermarkets following one […]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

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Two gilts, at a normal size for their age.

Growing well

30 August, 2012 by Stonehead 2 Comments

Our final three Berkshire porkers are growing well. Or rather, the two gilts are growing well. The boar, on the large side since farrowing, is growing extremely well and looks several weeks older than his littermates. The back-end view shows the massive difference between the boar and the gilts. He’s likely to be finished at […]

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Exploding eggs

23 August, 2012 by Stonehead 11 Comments

Shortly after 6pm, I mixed the evening feed for the chickens, poured it into a bucket and walked around to the first of the chicken runs out on the hill. I do the job day in, day out, which makes for a fairly sedate routine, even allowing for the odd cockerel attack. Today was no […]

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