Precious's no-longer-so-little bunch of nuts will be 7 weeks old on Sunday. They are happy, bumptious, roly-poly piglets and quite capable of fending for themselves - at least according to Precious who, for the past 10 days or so, has steadfastly made plain to them that suckling is 'just for babies'!
How does she do that? Well, she just puts her teats where they can't get to them - either hidden underneath her or pushed up against the perimeter fence or arc wall! She clearly feels her job is done.
So, plans are in hand to wean them.
And that's giving The Big Boss a little bit of a headache. Can we corner them away from Precious (she might have given up suckling them but she's still very protective ... and strong.....) and carry them, one by one, to the 
stalls? Can we shut them in the ark without her and then pick them up one by one and carry them......? Should we load them all into the trailer, Precious included, and then unload just the piglets into the stalls - assuming we can stop her getting out with them....? Could we corner the piglets away from her and then just carry them to the trailer without her going berserk........?
stalls? Can we shut them in the ark without her and then pick them up one by one and carry them......? Should we load them all into the trailer, Precious included, and then unload just the piglets into the stalls - assuming we can stop her getting out with them....? Could we corner the piglets away from her and then just carry them to the trailer without her going berserk........?Whichever... the deed will be done on Friday at tea time...... Watch this space.......
All will be revealed.........
All will be revealed.........
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