Regular readers will know that we currently have three sows - Delila, Ginger and Mrs Merkel - farrowing within a small timeframe. We've been watching them closely: "Delila will be first" one day - then "Definitely Merkel" but then "Ginger's lying down a lot" ... We were almost taking bets...When I looked out of the bedroom window this morning I couldn't see Mrs Merkel - unusual because she's normally rootling around first thing - "Wouldn't it be funny if Merkel had her piglets today?" I said to the Big Boss as we sat in bed drinking our early morning tea!!!! (Funny only because Linda loves to be here when the piglets are born but the sows try to fool her by farrowing when she's on a 'day off' --- where was she today? Yep: rare Saturday 'off') If anyone was going to be first it had to be a Merkel (well would her namesake ever let anyone beat her?).... She wasn't out for breakfast which was a dead giveaway...... I went quietly over to have a look and sure enough there she was on her feet with a couple of squiggling things around her. She didn't notice me: I left her to it. Clearly it was too early to pay even a courtesy visit....... when I went back at tea time she was relaxed enough to come out to eat - I don't think she'd realised I'd put her food outside her ark - anyway she came out and ate hungrily which gave me a chance to take some photos ... 6 or 7 healthy squigglies of which 4 are swallowbellies.
Clever Girl and Clever Black Banana - 'specially if the swallowbellies retain their colour...... lots of mini-Merkels --- we'll be having some fun over the next few days giving them a name ---- although, born on Con, our Handymany's birthday we could call them all 'Conmen'!!
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