Archived News

6th May 2008

We went to collect our piglets last night and the boys have each named one, they are called Percy, Prudence and Pheobe.  We have housed them in a barn to begin with, while we do the finishing touches on securing the field (pigs will do their utmost to push under the base of a fence). It is so funny watching them rummage about in the barn, they almost disappear under the straw.

Pheobe, Prudence (with ears that curl back!) and Percy - he's the white piglet.

Percy comes from a Gloucester Old Spot sow crossed with a Grey Saddleback and the black piglets Prudence and Pheobe are the offspring of a Tamworth sow and Black Berkshire boar.

More cattle are being turned out today from West Lane to the Rookery and Coomb Farm now that the weather is improving and grass is finally starting to grow.  This group of cattle are about five months old and whilst the weather was wet and cold they have been housed in open-sided barns.  

The fields at Sondes Place Farm are greening up with weeds and this need to be sprayed off today prior to drilling with maize (not under plastic) and Roy is fertilising winter wheat at Dunsfold and Shalford.