10 Environment Blogs

For the latest installment of my 10 Blogs series, I’m listing environment blogs (again!).

In alphabetical order, I’ve enjoyed visiting and reading:

1. 365 Days of Trash
   
2. A Little Greener Every Day
3. Adventures in Suburbia
4. Chemical Reaction
5. Eco-aesthete
6. Free Range Living
7. Green Assassin Brigade
8. No Impact Man
9. The Sietch Blog
10. Treehugger

Saying goodbye to the kids

Among our jobs for today was separating Daisy, one of our Berkshire sows, from her piglets. They’re now eight weeks old, eating well on solids and Daisy was definitely getting fed up with them. However, it does take a long time and lot of persuading to move Daisy as she’s very, very poor sighted (even by pig standards) and is also monumentally thick (especially by pig standards). As a result, she’s never quite sure where she is or where she’s going, which can make her timid and unsure. She’s also the only pig I’ve see that can lose track of its feed bowl! Still, she’s pretty with a nice nature so we can forgive her other flaws.

Nine days to go

Our next two Berkshire pigs are due to go slaughter in nine days time, which is a fortnight later than we’d have liked as they’ve taken longer to finish than our last few pigs. I had to change and cut their feed intake six weeks ago because they had started to lay down too much fat. It appears to have worked as the depth of fat over their backbone stabilised and then shrank slightly, so I can again just feel their spine. At the same time, both pigs are larger. As for the Big Lad’s “toy”, the best-behaved Beaver in his Beaver Pack gets to bring Beaver home for a week, so the Big Lad has been showing him around the croft and having photos taken to show his friends.