The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Hilarysmum on December 20, 2010, 01:55:29 pm
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Up at 3 am so perhaps some excuse but today the trailer came to take the pigs to the abattoir. As he pulled up the two pigs trotted past and on into the rising dawn.
He left the trailer for me to load them myself. The minute that he left they trotted back, and straight into the trailer They are now in the barn waiting for the off tomorrow. Best laid plans and all that :D :D :D
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Good luck - is He Who Had The Trailer someone who drives them to the abattoir for you?
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Yes, and thank you for your good luck wishes I needed them.
I begged Digby (pet pig ) to stay in the warm and not to attempt to help with the loading this morning. Digby can open any door and accompanied me anyway. The girls moved from barn to trailer with no problems, fastest ever loading, and Digs stood by watching until the last second just as I was about to shut the gates he could contain his enthusiasm no longer and shot into the trailer, and the two girls bolted out.
Luck wasnt with me as they ran up the path to the other pigs. They They ran past Hilary 3 times before her fragile patience expired and she came through the fencing like a tank. Hilary being a big girl, both pigs and I felt discretion was the better part of valour and we headed for the trailer with alacrity. Now I am quite vertically challenged but managed to make a very good time over the 200 metres. Hilary bearing down on us like an out of control steam train on speed was enough to send me into the relative safety of the trailer. Hilary arrived, took exception to the two porkers and with a turn of speed quite amazing in one so large bit the first one on the rump before charging at the second teeth bared. With a squeak both took refuge in the trailer. Doors shut, ramp up, and Hilary fed in less than a minute!!!!! After which Hilary took herself back to her field to await a second breakfast and Digby the Brave emerged from his hiding place to accompany me on the breakfast round. Pigs dont you just love them.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
So much for stress-free loading, then! ;D
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Oh yes, thats what happens when you let the experts help :pig:
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im really sorry, i thot hilary was ur daughter, jus realised she must be a pig?
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on here never assume anything
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Hilarys mum sorry but you made me laugh out loud!
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princess piggy please dont apologise. Hilary is far better looking than me!!!! She is the one in my icon.
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Oh Hilary's Mum, i thought we were just barmpots (translation: nutters) in our house. I loved reading about Hilary & Digby helping you (not). ;D A lot of my pigs wander at will and 'help' particularly gardening and tormenting the horses. Long may your tales of their exploits continue!
Mandy
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Move over, PG Woodehouse - his Empress of Blandings is nowhere near the character Hilary is! Plus HM writes much better! ;D
I can't wait for HM to write a novel about Hilary's adventures - it'd be a most hilarious account and bound to win the Book of the Year award. Interviews with literary critics, television appearances with a webcam straight into Hilary's ark (the camera being eaten by Hilary during a live feed), and then, of course, her own blockbuster film!
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Oh Hilary's Mum, i thought we were just barmpots (translation: nutters) in our house. I loved reading about Hilary & Digby helping you (not). ;D A lot of my pigs wander at will and 'help' particularly gardening and tormenting the horses. Long may your tales of their exploits continue!
sounds like youre describing us.
had party at our house at weekend, heard some very rapid knocking at back door, to find terrified neighbour standing next to giant sow, who was happily being nosey. look on both theyre faces was priceless.
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Thank you for the compliments which I will p ass on to H. PP that was priceless :D :D :D