Sucklers and small weaners are relatively easy to weigh. Step a on a scales, weigh yourself, catch a piglet, weigh yourself holding the piglet, and subtract the first number from the second.

Finishers through to porkers are also fairly straightforward. We have a measuring tape that you pass around the pig just behind the forelegs and read off the weight. It’s reasonably accurate.

The problematic ones to weigh are the big weaners and porkers. They are hard to catch, much heavier (30-50kg), wriggle and squeal, and don’t hold still for the measuring tape (which isn’t accurate on pigs under 50kg anyway).

Ideally, we’d have a weighing crate - the pigs walk in one end and out the other - but with a good used one costing £250 and new ones more than £500, we’re in for a lot of wriggling and squealing.

and how do you weight a pig? cant imagine it… be interested to know.