Moving day ....

BlackBananaBoy wooing his new Lady friend

Friday's is usually moving day... and we had serious moves to make last Friday. Victoria is due to farrow at the end of the year - she may or may not beat Truffle to it - so we wanted to move her away from BlackBananaBoy and the muddy woods to give her time to compose herself before THE  Day. Mrs Merkel, on the other hand, has been given a stay of execution (literally) -she was to have gone to the great sausagemachine in the sky tomorrow but, with The Big Boss having a bad arm and the Xmas markets being affected accordingly, we decided to put her up with BlackBananaBoy to breed instead: We are also thinking we may need a replacement for Ginger (!!!!).

"An armful of piggie is all I ever wanted"  said Con

Well - he was after her straightaway and there's been a hell of a noise ever since.....not sure that she's impressed with her new companion. Meanwhile, Victoria is indoors in the old stalls and wondering why ...but enjoying all the extra attention (and the dry accommodation no doubt).
And then there was little Snowdrop - the only girl amonst a litter of boys - who had to move from the barn with her brothers (of course) to the Playpen with the two Flowers - Rose and Begonia. Well, the only way to move her was to carry her - naturally!.  Linda did a skydive spectacular across the barn floor to catch her back leg - and missed which gaveYours Truly the chance to catch the piggie on the hop and grab the leg on the other side....

Between the pair of us we managed to pick her up and pass her across the hurdle to Con who carried her in his arms down to the field and her two cousins.

Snowdrop giving her cousins a wide berth!

The squealing had to be heard to be believed. The puppy ran to cover in a corner of the barn. Delila rounded up her piglets and stuffed them further to the back of their ark (not that they were exactly'out' of their little house.....).and all the other creatures looked about them in alarm. Snowdrop is so much smaller than her cousins and we were worried they'd not let her sleep with them but she managed to snuggle up at the back of the ark and the following morning snucked out last for her breakfast...... she'll be ok - pigs are so kind to each other  - usually.
Meanwhile, last night when the dogs went for their last walk, there was such a humdinger of a noise going on in the woods - Mrs Merkel and the BlackBananaBoy making whoopee in their ark again -well who's to guess what was going on.. but in the misty rainy night it was a pretty scary sound ---and they were not up for breakfast this morning....... time will tell.....