On the move again

"Mangal's put his feedbowl at the back of the Ark" said Linda a week or two back. Well... that's always a

 signal. He and Ginger are the original 'old married couple' and she's been looking just a tad fed up with life for about that length of time. "Time I got my own peace and quiet" she's probably been thinking and she doesn't get a lot of that with Mangal - not during waking hours anyway; he's always hogging her food and being a boar about who gets which vegetables. And we all know that a lady needs plenty of 'me' time. So the plan was devised and Friday was designated 'moving' day. First thing was to move Parcelforce and Aintree from the pen next to Ginger to their new pen in the Church Field. Then at tea time Mangal was tempted back through the gate to his old pen and the gate between him & Ginger was shut. Then the gate from Ginger's pen to what had been the little boys' pen was opened. She gave her new domain a bit of a once-over before settling down to tea. She's been looking much happier since then and although she spends most of her time in her original pen, she wanders through to the 'new bit' for tea and a chat!

A second thread of the 'plan' was to move the 6 Courier girls out of the barn -where they have been living since weaning -and out to their 'new' pen in the Church Field.
They went ape! Probably couldn't believe their luck; suddenly fresh air and space and mud and other pigs and "Oh what fun" everywhere.... they just ran round and round and round examining everything and exploring everywhere and just being totally silly. They were still running round when I shut the chickens up at dark! They were still running round next morning when I let the chickens out! I think they've been running around ever since. They probably do go to sleep some time but whenever anyone's out and about they are running around noisily - not called Little Couriers for nothing then! Always on the move.