Shed build with a little help

The Help

Shed build help

This chicken visits our garden / croft every day, she is so cheeky that she comes into the kitchen looking for food – someone should tell her that only my wife is a vegetarian, I like chicken dinners!

Pig came visiting

We live in the countryside and have a large garden of over an acre which we are trying to tame and make into a productive self-sufficient small croft. We started to keep chickens nearly a year ago and out 8 hens are still laying 7-8 eggs a day and just love the large free range area they have to scrape and wander around in. So what has this got to do with dogs and a pig? Well I let my collie out at 11 pm and after a few minutes she came running in and behind her was the sound I had never heard before, I noticed a fairly large animal running down the side of our house.

It turned out to be an escaped pig from the next door farm. It was dark and I did not like the idea of leaving a pig roaming around our garden eating my plants and recently planted trees so off I went to try and catch the pig. I could not use our collies, for Tibby was recuperating from an operation and my other collie was not a farm dog (Tibby is / was).

pig in Garden

I ended up walking up my wife and for over an hour we tried to catch the pig, who was I have to say very happy about being fed scraps of bred and carrots, and far too bright to get caught. We nearly managed to get her into an animal transport trailer, except at the last moment she side swerved and got away. I even managed to put a dog lead on her, again she was too smart and managed to get out of that. In the end the traffic on the road stopped and we left her roaming around the farm tracks.

In the morning I got up early and had a look around the farm to see if I could find her. She was nowhere to be seen. On looking around our garden suddenly a grunting noise and a head appeared out of a bale of straw we have, the pig had snuggled into the straw and slept. I went and told our neighbours that their pig was in our garden – and yes it is amazing what a bucket of barley can do, she was happy to follow George with his pail of food back to her mates.

Pig

Pig looking at chickens