Tracking




			*“From field to fork, from pasture to plate - tracking your food every step of the way”*

	News ~ last updated 26/06/08

On Tuesday 8^th January 2008 at 07.00 Hilda (our eldest sow seen here) gave birth to 10 pedigree Oxford Sandy and Black piglets, sired by Jaspar (our pedigree boar seen here)
On Tuesday 15^th January 2008 at 05.00 Elsie (seen here) gave birth to 4 pedigree Oxford Sandy and Black piglets, also sired by Jaspar.

We are currently waiting until these piglets are 8 weeks old. At this point they will be joined by another litter of 13 pedigree Oxford Sandy and Black piglets and (weather permitting..!) they will all move out to the fields.

It is at this point that we invite the adopters to come and choose their piglets. The piglets will then enjoy about 5 months of living outdoors (taking us until August) when they will enjoy a mixed diet of pig nuts, fruit and veg, malted barley and anything else they find when rooting in the soil.

As more pictures are taken, we will upload them onto this page alongside the adopter’s names (if you have chosen this). We will also email you when this page is updated.

On 22 February Hilda’s piglets were weaned (taken away from her). They are now in a larger barn with access to the outdoors and are loving the mud and digging! Hilda went straight back out to the field to re-join Jaspar, the boar...Elsie’s were then weaner a week later.

On March 13th our pedigree sow Fedorcha gave birth to 3 piglets. It was a disappointing litter in terms of size, though 3 healthy pedigree piglets is always very good for both the breed and the farm.

March 15th saw the arrival of 14 new Oxford Sandy and Black piglets from a local farm. The next day they were mixed with the others (now totalling 28) and they are living in a large barn with outdoors area out the back where the run, dig and wallow. On March 20th they all moved outside into the large field.

By 21st April the pigs have been living living outside in the new field for over a month. As they dig more and more (and it rains more and more) we rotate their areas, maximising their access to fresh grass and giving them more space to dig and root as they do naturally.