Comments on: Doing the pig shuffle

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:32:20 +0000

Ah, a bit like me then. Simple when seen in person…

By: mummys little angel

mummys little angel — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:19:35 +0000

I should have added that the saying ‘it’s like the Krypton factor’ used, or was, to saying something is complicated looking or difficult.

Stonehead’s lay out is simple when seen on the ground and in person!

By: mummys little angel

mummys little angel — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:16:39 +0000

It was mazes and logic puzzles, included large jigsaws with impossible similar shapes. The contestant were not put through mazes but had large puzzles and mazes in front of them, from what I can remember, with an army assault to end.

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:03:54 +0000

I didn’t understand the Krypton Factor reference so I looked it up and discovered it was a British game show. I’m still not totally certain about the reference, but I suspect contestants were put through mazes where they can’t cross their previous paths? If so, then yes, it can seem a bit like that at times when moving the pigs.

By: Steph in Roker

Steph in Roker — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:08:27 +0000

Your field layout in the snow looks like something off Krypton Factor. I’m not the most spacially aware of people, and all that fencing gave me a headache. If I were one of your pigs I think I’d sit in the corner quietly.

By: susancyclist

susancyclist — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:47:10 +0000

I like their names!

& Daisy rides “A Bicycle Built for Two”.

Now you’ll be singing that to her.

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:58:34 +0000

Delilah and Doris are good with the boys so I’m happy to take one boy at a time into a pen or the byre with each of them, even when they have piglets. Both sows are quite happy to be herded by the boys, although I’m always close at hand when we’re doing this (and it’s only boy at a time).

Daisy came to us fully grown and, while she is good natured, we don’t have quite the same relationship. I’ll take the oldest boy in with her and they’re getting used to each other, but more work is needed. She was comfortable to have both boys go in, one at a time, and have a look at her piglets just after she farrowed, so that was a good sigh.

Dolores is a chav. She’s loud-mouthed, bolshie and just a little untrustworthy. I can take the boys in with her most of the time but I know her moods and I’m always more careful with her.

Graham is a very good natured animal, but he is a boar. The Big Lad has a good relationship with Graham so I’m happy for him to rub him through the gate. Generally, though, the boys don’t get to come into the pen with Graham, unless he’s on his own with no sows. He’s just too big and too much of a boofer if he’s prancing around with his sows.

By: Cogidubnus

Cogidubnus — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:47:36 +0000

What a fine figure of a porker she is…

From your comments though, I can see why you’re so careful of the lads when the pigs are loose…