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18/03/2024

Saw this on a friends page and asked her permission to pinch it and share! Absolutely love it!!!

Love, Rach & The Gang
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13/03/2024

So this is what a weeks worth of carrots and one months worth of pig food looks like!

No sacks of pony carrots (£4 each) today when we arrived at our fruit and veg supplier so we had to have 'proper' sacks of carrots (£10 each). A HUGE thank you to who are selling animal related books and donating all proceeds to us (I'll go through, find their posts and repost here). Their last sale would have got us two sacks of pony carrots but was, instead, put towards one sack of these carrots. Every donation makes such a HUGE difference to us. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Love from Rach & The Gang x

Rachel Hargrave

15/02/2024

Thank you for all your birthday messages earlier this week. I've only just felt like being able to read them and this year I won't respond to each one. Mrs Pig leaving us on Monday really did knock me for six. It wasn't that we weren't expecting it but.... are you ever really that prepared? I've taken the last three days off as there was a lot to sort out afterwards (you cannot legally buy a pig on your land so that was... interesting). Thank you to Ingrid Paige who had been there before us and was able to share her knowledge and contacts.

Please don't think my quietness is ingratitude. I just needed to be still and quiet and feel for a bit. Process it all I guess.

Much love, Rach & The Gang x

Photo shows Mrs Pig in happier days.

22/12/2023

Hurrah! Lovely to see Ma Pig out and about in Pig Field 2 today after her recent poorliness. Here she is accompanied by her fabulous daughter Pip Pig, Pig, Pig. She had seen Gary walk past so had pottered down the field to demand grass from him (which, of course, he obliged with!). I really do like seeing Ma and all the 'piglets' out and about. Glad you're feeling better Ma Pig. Look after yourself and we'll do our best to look after you too.

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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21/12/2023

Whilst out for a morning run I noticed the stream that runs across the valley floor between our hills and the next range. Well noticed it... the roar it was making and the white peaks it was creating was just awesome! With all the rain we've been having it was swollen and incredibly noisy. Not used to seeing it so wild! Photo really doesn't do it justice but was the best I could do mid-run.

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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21/12/2023

Patch Patch Pig (she of the very marvellous ears and beautiful white snout and face) wanted to hop on and say, "Good morning!"

Good morning beautiful girl!

Patch Patch Pig and I hope you all have a wonderful day too.

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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20/12/2023

Ah! Now here's a pig I can easily spot - as long as he shows me this side! A white crescent moon can only mean that this pig is Merlin Pig, Pig, Pig! Here he is enjoying his tea before piling into his barn bedroom for a cuddle up with his Ma and eight brothers and sisters.

Merlin is also something of an adventurer having broken out of their three fields (roughly 10 acres) to go for a walk and root around in the goats field (amongst others). Gary found him wandering around the yard when he came back from town a few days ago and when I walked the dogs later that same day I could see where he'd been from the uprooting of grass here, there and everywhere! He is, however, as good as gold and when Gary said, "Merlin! What you doing out here? Come on back with the rest!" he followed him back as good as gold!

Merlin you really are a one!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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20/12/2023

You never can trust your siblings around food, can you? Or so this fabulous pig thinks! She took her breakfast fruit and veg off away from her brothers and sisters to enjoy it and not have to share it! I can't tell you who it is as I need to see their faces to put a name to an otherwise majestic black pig (there are seven of them that are all or mostly black!). If I had to guess I'd say A***n.. but it would be a guess.

Anyhoo... whoever it was enjoyed their breakfast unmolested and that's the important thing!

Hope you're enjoying your breakfast too!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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19/12/2023

Well I got a real shock a couple of days ago. Ma Pig was under the weather (something we've never seen in the 5 years we've known her)! Now, Ma Pig and I get on. Not as well as she and Gary do (Gary being her first favourite human and me a very far way behind in second!) but well enough. She usually comes bustling up to me and makes her presence known but this particular morning she was the last one out of their bedroom, she only ate the food nearest to her and didn't push her sons and daughters off their food (a regular occurrence). Once she'd eaten the food nearest to her she went, slowly, back to bed. I, of course, gave her a quick once over. No distended belly, no wounds on her, no sign of limping... nothing. I reported my observations to Gary who, immediately, went to see Ma Pig. He agreed with me - she wasn't herself.

So, we kept a very close eye on her ladyship for the next few days and are thrilled to say that whilst she's still not back to her usual self, she's definitely making progress wandering further to find food and generally looking more like herself.

Ma Pig you had us worried! Now hurry up and get fully back up to speed. In the meantime her first favourite human is keeping a very close eye on her!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
x

19/12/2023

Well Robie and I were in the clouds this morning and that's for sure! At least it isn't (currently) as wet as yesterday. We really do want a break in the rain and some dry so Robi and I were imagining dry whilst we were walking!

Have a wonderful, dry day y'all!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
x

18/12/2023

Our ladies do make me laugh! As I was taking photos of the girls dust bathing earlier one marched over to me with a definite look about her of, "Here! What are you doing? Have you got our permission to be taking photos? Well, have you?" However, as soon as she saw the state of my wellies her demeanour changed. There could be a tasty snack there after all! OG chicken was quickly joined by two of her kin who commenced pecking my wellies and my jeans. Looks like it wasn't just chickens who were being tidied up today! I got my turn too!

Chicken power!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
x

18/12/2023

On a very rainy Monday morning what is a girl to do but.... have a dust bath! Well, that's what our ladies thought this morning. We opened up the chicken coop and out popped 14 heads. They were not impressed by the weather and swiftly returned inside. When I popped back a little later to check all was well I found three of the girls in full dust bath.

Can't blame them! Keep warm and dry ladies and defo have some 'me time'!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
x

17/12/2023

A bit of finance work on a Sunday evening - what could be finer?!

We buy quite a bit from CCF including corn and pellets for our chickens, lamb finisher for our sheep, non-molasses chaff, horse nuts and senior horse mix for our ponies and Billy Horse and lots and lots of sow rolls for our pigs. In three months (April-June inclusive) we spent £1,083.67 there. Fortunately for us;

1. We pay for quite a lot of this through book donations which we sell on (thank you Tammy Reynolds for Hair for your and your clients FANTASTIC donations which have bought just shy of 1 tonne of sow rolls for our pigs this year!

2. We now (finally!) have an account with CCF which means that we get a bit of discount. So, along with this statement, we also received £25 of vouchers which we'll be spending at CCF in the New Year. What do Tesco say? 'Every Little Helps' and it really does.

Just thought you might be interested to see a little bit more behind the scenes stuff and what it costs to keep our fabulous animal family in food (don't even get me started on what we spend each week on fresh fruit and vegetables to ensure as rounded a diet as possible for them all!).

If you've got any suggestions as to what you'd like to see don't be shy, just pop them in the messages and I'll do my best to accommodate requests!!

Off for a beer (non-alcoholic) now!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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17/12/2023

There you are you bu**er! There I was happily counting sheep... and I was one short! Oh no!!

Recount time!

One short again.

Then I checked the trees. You'd have thought that a black / brown sheep would be easy to spy wouldn't you? Perhaps it's just me?! Anyhoo, we're all present and correct which is the really important thing.

Until tomorrow sheep!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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16/12/2023

Just LOVE me a black / brown sheep! I was counting Robin the Farmers sheep this morning and just stood watching these four chowing down! Make me smile every time I see them... and they know they're special! The look they give me IF they actually do look at me can only be described as a look of disdain!

All right girls I'll move on and leave you to the important job of munching!

Have a wonderful weekend all!

Love,

Rach & The Gang
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