Hot off the press

"I've told her to wait till Tuesday" said Linda as she went off for a couple of days....
"Sorry" said Andromeda.. "Really couldn't wait any longer... was about to burst". Thereby continuing the trend of sows farrowing on Linda's day off...
So ... Congratulations to Andromeda &The Black Banana - born this morning, after breakfast, 6 glorious swallowbelly piglets.
It was an experiment in a way to put Andromeda to Black Banana... really just to see if two swallowbellies would produce one or more swallowbellies..... and Andromeda has produced 6 - in 6 years this if the first completely swallowbelly litter we  have had....  it may not be exciting in the overall scheme of things but it IS exciting here....... what a clever girl...... what a clever chap
We've told the rest of the herd...
They'll all be round to check.....
Well done Annie.......  Well done Banana.....
Oh - and I almost forgot to mention that the Bestest Gundog in All the World was first to spot them again... when we were doing 'other things' he stopped dead in front of Andromeda's pen and 'looked' in that certain way that made me stop and have a look..... Such a clever dog..... And as if that

were not curious enough...... the hens, who have been sharing Andromeda's pen for weeks, moved into the ark to sort things out ... I suppose they are really just clearing up flies - nature's way of keeping stuff sorted ... or maybe they were bringing gifts?   Whatever: Annie didn't mind and they were there for the duration..... "Cluck, cluck, cluck.... wierd chicks... wierd chicks ..cluck, cluck,......" they were probably saying.....