Ginger's done it again!
On a bright, cold, quiet Friday afternoon when just Linda was about, Ginger decided 'the time was right' and calmly delivered 9 piglets!
We'd been watching her closely for the past 10 days but, as ever, she gave no obvious sign
s. I arrived home at dusk from a day 'in the field' with - and without - the bestest Gundog in all the world (but that's a tale for another day) to find Linda positively bubbling with excitement. At feed time she was surprised - and slightly anxious - not to see Ginger waiting for her meal.
s. I arrived home at dusk from a day 'in the field' with - and without - the bestest Gundog in all the world (but that's a tale for another day) to find Linda positively bubbling with excitement. At feed time she was surprised - and slightly anxious - not to see Ginger waiting for her meal. Hearing grunts and squeaks, she tiptoed quietly up to the ark and peered inside.
And it was better than being 3 years old and seeing the real Santa Claus:
there in the straw was a wet, slimey, wriggling mass of literally just-born piglets!
How she managed to count them, 
goodness only knows. But she did; and she was right!
goodness only knows. But she did; and she was right! Seven cream striped and 2 ginger striped.
What Joy! And what timing: on the coldest day of the year so far! So this afternoon we put lots more chunks of straw outside the ark and Ginger eagerly carried several inside for the little ones to snuggle up in.
Whilst taking these photos I was amazed to see them, one by one, going off into the corner for a brief sojourn - housetrained at such an early age: who'd have believed it???!
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