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 […]
Tag Archives: rare breed
Piglets
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 […]
Weaned Piglets
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 […]
Farrowing
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 […]
Pig Pregnancy Test
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 […]
Vernal Equinox
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 […]
AI
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 […]
