Hiya

Laura here:

It’s all going on! This last 10 days has seen a real baby boom.

We have had 10 new piglets and the sheep have started lambing - so the stables now look more like a crèche! Even more exciting is our new kitchen resident. Dorothy the piglet!!!

Yes, you are reading this correctly we have a pig living in our house. When the pig had her litter, piglet Dorothy snuck off on her own and ended up not getting any milk from her mum which made her poorly.

We found her in a bucket, nearly dead. We thought she wouldn’t make it but a spell under the hair dryer at home warmed her up and brought her back to life. However, she had been away from her mum too long by then so couldn’t go back to her. This means she is now being reared at home instead! How cool is that?

Not so good thought, McVity has been a bit lame. We think he must have pulled a muscle fighting over the hay (four horses, eight piles of hay and they still choose to fight over one pile – stupid creatures!)

When we went up to the field on Wednesday night he was really lame but today he is much better so I think he will be okay. Another week off and he’ll be up and running again!

Bye for now!