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I’m not sure how I am finding the energy to tell you about this – what a day!
I have mentioned on the website that our pig Truffle has a visiting boyfriend, all has been well for the last week but today he decided that he fancied exploring further afield. This obvoiusly wasn’t a good idea so we tempted him back to the fenced area we have for the pigs and Steves nephew came over to put up an electric fence to keep them in.
Well Giovanni (the boars name) didn’t like the fence one little bit – don’t suppose I would either – and after 10 minutes or so he trotted up to the fence and then took off just like a champion show jumper and cleared the fence completely!
He was a bit wound up by this time and could not be tempted back – he then ran off across the fields. We headed him off at the road and managed to keep him in a little wooded area. Reinforcements were called in with a trailer and boards for directing him and eventually some 3 hours later we have him back in his pen with Truffle.
If she doesn’t have piglets after all this going on!!!!!
To make matters worse after all that trouble with pigs guess what we had out for tea – SAUSAGES!!