We thought Delila's brood were fast developers but it seems Ginger's been tapping into the grapevine and is determined to keep her end up!
I was absolutely stunned to see her little ones - well, 5 of them, gamboling around in the sunshine late yesterday afternoon....... that makes it just 5 days after they were born......the other three were curled up in the straw in the doorway to the ark, fast asleep.....
Today it's been very warm and I found Ginger this afternoon submerged in a wallow with 6 of the little ones playing over and around her. When I looked, the other two were submerged in the straw indoors, oblivious to the world!
What was really funny was, when it was time to go 'home' for tea, instead of going through the gate into the pen where the ark is (and how should piglets know about things like gates and gaps???), the piglets went via the shorter route ---- straight through the fence.... except some parts of the fence proved easier to get through than others, so there was a bit of a panic whilst they trotted to and fro looking for the right sized 'hole' to climb through..... one of them was left well behind and got quite agitated at being separated from his mates..... until he finally managed to squeeze through and dart into the ark........ Aaaaahhhhhh.
Talking about ga
ps in fences, when we were doing the tea-trolley bit later on this afternoon we found one of Delila's brood on the 'wrong' side of the fence, unable to get back in...... she'd clearly managed to crawl under the fence from the inside out, but with the bank and slope and all that, couldn't find her way back in....and, from the way she was anxiously running round the perimeter and the surrounding woods, she had been out for a little while.....so there was a bit of a panic until we (The Boss, The Bestest Gundog and I managed to catch the little thing and lift her back over the fence for her tea ---- a feat which was accompanied by much grunting and squealing from the rest of the 'family' on the other side......!
ps in fences, when we were doing the tea-trolley bit later on this afternoon we found one of Delila's brood on the 'wrong' side of the fence, unable to get back in...... she'd clearly managed to crawl under the fence from the inside out, but with the bank and slope and all that, couldn't find her way back in....and, from the way she was anxiously running round the perimeter and the surrounding woods, she had been out for a little while.....so there was a bit of a panic until we (The Boss, The Bestest Gundog and I managed to catch the little thing and lift her back over the fence for her tea ---- a feat which was accompanied by much grunting and squealing from the rest of the 'family' on the other side......! Never a dull moment in the countryside.....
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