2 of my boys were booked into the abattoir this morning. I like to be one of the first booked in there, so an early start.
We got them loaded into the trailer at 7 this morning for the 45 mins trip. I like to tell them they are going on there holidays
Hubby takes them, and got to the abattoir, 2nd in the queue, so expecting things to go smoothly.
The first pigs go through and hubby reverses up to the door, all the paperwork done and then......
One of the machines breaks! They try to fix it, but after an hour (and a long line of trailers right the way up the lane)...they decide it can't be mended so everyone has to go home.
So my boys have had a lovely trip out this morning. When they arrived back they were snuggled up sleeping in their bed of straw in the back of the trailer and weren't too keen to come out into the rain. A quick shake of the bucket and they meandered back into their pen.
The abattoir are trying to get a licence to do pigs on Friday.....so another trip out for the boys then.