On Tuesday we fetched the new weaners for this year. Delilah, Deirdrie and Dorothy – (we each chose a name), and settled them into the pig run. So far they have just had the hardstanding and inside to play with – ample for three little piggies, and tomorrow they will get the whole run. Which [...]
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new pigs
Posted in livestock, pigs, tagged Berkshire pigs, pigs on 24 March 2012 | 8 Comments »
pork processing
Posted in grow your own food, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 November 2010 | 2 Comments »
Himself took some time off work, and, in between organising home ed activities and interacting with the tree surgeon who came to deal with dangerous fallen tree, we have been butchering pork. Monday night we processed the offal, into several meals of faggots, and a big stash of pate. Yesterday we cut up the four sides [...]
bringing home the bacon…well.. pork
Posted in livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency on 20 October 2010 | 4 Comments »
We’ve had a few busy pig/pork related days. Sunday we loaded the pigs. oh see how quickly that is written down.. getting the swine.. yes swine! to go into the trailer was a trial once again. And once again I’m glad we opted for the night before. The task made a little harder by only [...]
dry
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, vegetables, tagged Berkshire pigs, pigs, vegetables on 23 June 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been so dry for ages and ages – we are struggling here to keep the veg patches going. The potato crop looks to be a disaster, with just not enough greenery for them to be making spuds underground, although the earlies have been great. Up by the house and greenhouses, we are out of [...]
naming the pigs
Posted in livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 16 May 2010 | 4 Comments »
As Rosie pointed out yesterday, we have not announced the names of our new pigs. A hasty family conference, and today we have settled on our choice. This year is B – and we have Bertie and Betty the lambs, and now, Buddleia, Bramble, Bracken and Boadicea ( Bodie for short – since she is [...]
broodies.. like buses
Posted in chickens, livestock, pigs on 3 May 2010 | 5 Comments »
All through the last hatch incubating, I was hoping to get a broody hen to foster them on to – particularly with the hot weather we had last month. But no. Today I have two. So… we settled them into their separate solitary confinements, on fake eggs, and are collecting eggs to hatch.. When we were [...]
three little piggies.. and the other one
Posted in livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged Berkshire pigs, pigs on 1 May 2010 | 12 Comments »
Today we collected our weaners – we had decided on three this year (with a plot in mind to magically turn pork in beef), but the breeder offered us the runt of the litter for cheap. That’s her on the right. Not so much smaller than the others. Hopefully she will still make a good [...]
knitting WIP…
Posted in chickens, crochet, grow your own food, home education, knitting, livestock, make it yourself, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep on 25 February 2010 | 4 Comments »
I seem to have got a bit into a muddle.. and lost my rules of only so many projects on the go at once. Problem is dabbling in trying to make things that might sell.. that and a distinct lack of time all round. I feel lamb-lagged from the night checks etc… But enough excuses. [...]
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