Having been let down with the Saddleback boar that Tulip was meant to go to, I searched high and low for another ... eventually managed to find a GOS a fair distance away and arranged to take her there next Monday. Called yesterday to say they are selling their stock so they can't help but put me in touch with someone else a bit further away ... he can't help for 8 weeks and even at that time his boars will be up for sale
Actually a little bit stuck now. We need one of the girls to go off to the pig pen in the sky (our freezer) but that would leave Tulip on her own and without a boar. I really don't think Daisy is going to be happy about a boar moving in to the next door paddock and after 5 weeks of looking, haven't come up with anyone who will take her.
I can't move Daisy and the piglets out until the two girls have gone elsewhere as the septic tank emptying people are putting in new drain covers and are in the top part of the paddocks ... aaargh!
OH says Tulip should go in the freezer and we should keep one of Daisy's girls for breeding next year when everything can be planned and we're hopefully not stupid enough to get into the same situation
How stressful!