Weaning Precious on 1st April went smoothly: Usual routine - Precious distracted with food as her litter of 'New Romantics' were lifted out one by one - a bit of posturing, grunting and squealing - then one of the piglets 'escaped' and ran the long way round back to Mum - who looked as much as to say "What you? Thought I'd just got rid of the lot of you" before we caught him up and put him back with his mates in the stalls.
Precious then enjoyed a few days of peace and quiet - thankfully catching up on her beauty sleep. A Sow normally comes into season 4 or so days after weaning. On April 5 it was time to return her to her handsome beau. As ever, she didn't hang about when it came to loading her into the trailer for the very short journey (not even time to get a decent photo).
On occasion in the past we have just let her run up the field to him but we were being helped by a couple of 'training to be vet' students and it would have been just like Precious to have her little joke and run all over the place just to show off - so we thought we'd better play it safe! (Someone say chicken?? Not us!).
Samson was delighted to see Precious again and was all over her like a swarm of flies. She, however, having said a brief "Hello" ran off to inspect the recent modifications. "New fences? and a new House?" she must have thought to herself as she gave each a good look over.
Having satisfied herself that all was up to standard she then settled down to tea. Samson, who's been off his food whilst alone ("Getting back into shape" he probably calls it), stood by companiably and just watched, knowing his time would soon come!
Sure enough, a couple of days later, Linda confirmed that they were getting down to the serious business of becoming reacquainted...........
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