We have lift off!

Well, pigs anyway. The farming (well, perhaps smallholding would be more accurate at this stage, but there's no harm in being ambitious) operation is underway.

On Saturday afternoon we collected six Saddleback cross Landrace weaners. They're all 12 weeks old and from the same litter, not that you'd know from looking at them.



They had been living inside so it really lovely to see them exploring their surroundings - and getting used to electric fence...! We're going to keep them in the pen we built, which is about 25m x 25m for the next two weeks or so while they get used to us, and living outside etc and then move them to the woodland we're renting (more about that later).

The people we bought them from have been feeding them weaner pellets, about 1kg each per day, so we're keeping going with that for now even though they can forage outside as they will be using extra calories to keep warm. We'll keep an eye on this though and review as necessary. We're planning to weigh them before we move them so then we'll have more idea when they might be 'ready'.