Where the bacon comes from ….
All the bacon and sausages sold in the Blue Rabbit Cafe come from our own pigs who free-range on our smallholding. Yesterday we took two of these pigs to the […]
All the bacon and sausages sold in the Blue Rabbit Cafe come from our own pigs who free-range on our smallholding. Yesterday we took two of these pigs to the […]
As our last two rounds of AI did’t work with our Large Black gilts (not 1 and 3) we decided they were more suited to a university career so off […]
We weaned the piglets. We got them used to coming and eating food in a hurdle square and then one day during egg collection we shut the entrance and opened […]
We’re certain that number 1 is pregnant – well as certain as people who know next to nothing about pregnant pigs can be. Really I won’t fully believe she is […]
So, you have done your AI, but how do you know if your pigs are pregnant? There’s no need to hang around and wait for them to pee on a […]
Here at smallholdingdreams we celebrate the Persian New Year (Nev-ruz) otherwise known as the vernal equinox with a review of the past year’s activities (see here and here). However, as […]
The instructions say “if the semen is flowing out onto your boots the sow is not going to get pregnant” – makes sense I suppose. So I guess we will […]