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 Members of the British Saddleback Breeders' Club  Members of the British Pig Association  Members of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust |
Latest newsAutumn 2009 Summer 2008 Well it looks like the hobby is becoming a business!! We have started to take orders for pork from people apart from my mum! Our local pub, The Artichoke, is serving our pork and sausages (made with Tiger bitter). A new farmers market has started in Northampton... 3rd Thursday of each month; and we are holding a stall there. Thanks for your help Barry; Sara and Dave. We couldn't have done it without you. We bought a new sow, Sally, who has had a litter of ten fabulous healthy piglets and we have another sow who is being shown by her breeder. Previously... 2008 Well no piglets! Despite two boars and a feed bill the size of Bournemouth, Pansy remains fruitless. How soft are we?... She now lives at an animal sanctuary where she has the company of two other pigs. 2007 has been tricky; The constant rain in spring meant the electric fence line was always covered in mud. We lost our first pig who was a runt and finally died with pneumonia despite constant attention and medication. The two outbreaks of Foot and Mouth didn't help as we couldn't move stock to slaughter as planned and our tamworths learned to climb stock fencing to fight with the saddlebacks... always returning to their own beds by evening! On the up side... we have a new sow "Pantysgawen Silverwings 50" or Pansy as we call her. We are hoping for our own piglets in the new year. 2006 started with difficulty, we hadn't anywhere to go with our pigs. By the time we found somewhere the season was ahead of us. This year we kept Gloucester Old Spots. One of our highlights was Terry Jones popping in - on his way back from delivering a talk about his T.V. series and book; "Barbarians". | .JPG) Fabulous aren't they.
 Lauren cooks for the market while Dave and Mike take a break
 Terry Jones pops in to feed the pigs. (It was very cold for August)
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