Crikey! I can't believe it is that time already... Time moves so fast and the piglets are no longer the tiny intrepid little things they were a few weeks ago...

Hungry piglets tuck into their Mama's milk bar!

Life in the pig paddock seems positively serene at present. What a relief! After the torments of new motherhood and hormone hell, the tentative first steps o...

This time last week I was hovering around the pig pen watching the piglets with an eagle eye. Why? Because a little black piglet lay down and died! This was ...

Bangers and Mash are now footloose and fancy-free! They are no longer confined to barracks of any sort, not during the day, nor locked up at night, so they a...

Bangers and Mash have been increasingly feisty in the last few days. They were jostling me at meal times – they were demanding more food, more space, more a...

Last night it poured, great! I was woken sometime after midnight by the sound of heavy rain crashing on to the roof. Desperate for rain, this sounded like t...

Hunger and hormones are not a good combination for anyone or anything be it cat, dog, pig or indeed human. This combo makes women tetchy, moody and liable to...

Oh dear… new mums and their hormones can prove to be a touch troublesome – as I found out! I have said before that Bangers and Mash are the skippiest pigs we...

Here we are - four days old! Everything is new and exciting... and we can't wait to explore.

Mash popped out eight little beauties yesterday morning. She must have only just finished when I arrived in the pigpen, to find her eyeing up these little b...

Here we have some pictures of the proud mum and her offspring... And, some of Mash making her bed in the Copacabana. Note the dry soil and lack of grass, we...

Bangers has six beautiful piglets! As I listened to the wind whistling round the house during the night, I worried how she was getting on, how many piglets h...

She’s been acting a bit strange all day… lying down in the pig house most of the time, only pottering out on unsteady legs when she thought that Bash might b...

Oh my goodness it looks as though Bangers and Mash are getting distinctly rounder and lower in the tummy department. There’s no more wondering whether they a...

Happy Birthday Bangers and Mash!

The local farmer told me to wait until after the full moon... so I did. Why? You ask? Well. Apparently Bangers and Mash were in season and received Snr Boar'...

A husband has arrived!

A huge abscess had erupted underneath the right eye of Bangers and she stood there glaring at me with one eye wide open and the pale eyelashes of the other g...

"...and saw half a dozen small black piglets prancing, yes prancing about in the pig pen."