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I don't know what it is about our pigs but it strikes me they're all turning into Prima Donnas.
This is Precious's 7th litter and you'd have thought by now she'd got the whole thing down to a fine art.
Three months, three weeks and three days and "Pop - there's your piglets".
But no. She has to make a special thing of it.
Of course, she'd heard on the hogvine that Delila was now being spoken of in the same breath as Stars of Stage and Screen. So, what's a girl to do?
Go one step better of course.
None of this hanging around and just dropping the Little Ones like it doesn't really matter: 7th litter or not, each one is Extra Special to Mum.

So, we have to make an occasion of it.
How?
Wait for a special occasion.
Trouble is there're not that many of them in January.
Not if you miss the 1st that is. You 've just got to hang on till nearly the end of the month and then what have we? That's right. Burns Night.
That'll have to be it then.
Bust a gut, but wait till January 25th ---- and then they'll be special.
What's more Everyone - human, porcine, equine, canine and the rest - will recognise the fact.
There's no spots on Precious. That's for sure.
And because they're Special they get a commensurate name: Remember those famous men from 2000 odd years ago - travelled to a Stable and all that. Well, these are The Hagi. And in 2000 years from now pigs near and far will be telling tales about how they arrived on that Special Night long, long ago (actually they arrived from 2pm onwards but let's not split hairs - and there were rather more of them than the original bunch.....)

They're living up to their name already and making journeys far and wide - relatively speaking. One little one was brave enough to make a strike for independence on Friday morning, exploring round the interior of the ark and its hillocks whilst his/her siblings were snuffling small things close together.  This afternoon a breakaway group decided to venture further afield and were tottering around the outside of the ark despite the gloomy,cold and drizzly weather ..... I just managed to snap this one before it staggered back indoors in response to Precious' instructions.      "Uh Oh": if they're like this now I don't fancy The Bestest Gundog's chances of keeping them under control in 2 or 3 weeks' time.

Mind you The Season will be long over by then so maybe he'll be glad to have his paws full of piglet problems.......!!!!......