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The Good Life - again!

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Alpacas smell worse than Camels Clare :shock:

 

I know someone who has a couple and you have to feed this rich diet to them as the UK grass is deficient in something they need selenium I think and this feed makes what comes out the back end really ripe :vom::lol:

 

They are cute though :?

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:lol: - we've all tried to take the wrong child home at times, even their mothers :lol: My daughter even kissed George goodbye one morning, it was only his startled look which made her realise :lol:

 

They looked more alike when younger but are changing now.

 

I don't know what those two boys did to the tractor while I went to fetch the camera - Carl was not a happy bunny when he next went to use it :? I thought it was safe enough without the key :oops:

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Vic is poorly :(

 

I don't think it is the children's fault though - I think it has more to do with it having no fuel gauge :? Carl was moving it last night up to the pig paddock and it just stopped. It was getting dark and Carl was tired - I think it has run out of fuel and needs sorting out.

 

Two of the little (big) piggies are off on their holidays tomorrow morning :?

We haven't really named these two and it's still sad - goodness knows how we will feel when it is time for the others to go :?

 

We collected 20 little white Ross/Cobb chickens on Monday - 4 weeks old. They are at the stage where they look awful as their feathers are almost grown but not quite. They are all inside a shed but will be out later today. I'll take some photos.

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The farm was on Location, Location again this week - Tuesday? Louise told me and luckily, I'd recorded it, pure chance - I thought it was a new series :roll:

 

 

Ok I've seen this twice and until now didn't realise one of them was your place. Which was it? Shame I've deleted it otherwise I would have gone back for a real nosy

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:lol: - it was good to see it, it makes us realise just how much we've done. We still have it on Sky Planner - I might work out how to get it off there one day and pass it on :roll: We even have lawn now :shock: It's looking quite good now - still a bit rough in places, but we're getting there. The TV prog. made it look 10 times better as well :shock:

 

We took two of the the pigs off to the abattoir this morning, up at 5.30 to finish getting them ready. We thought we were ready last night but then remembered that they hadn't been tattooed :shock: . It was then too dark to find the pig slapper and ink so we did it first thing. We should have done it a few days ago and then we wouldn't have felt so bad that we were slapping them hard, not giving them their breakfast and then taking them to the abattoir :( We did give them a piece of apple each and they were fine.

 

We'd put the stock trailer in on Tuesday so that they were used to it and then last night, we separated two of them from the others and shut it up. They had water but no food. Carl went to tow the trailer back out and found that the pigs had eaten the fuse box off the trailer :shock: - no lights or indicators :? Plugging in the electrics this morning then fused the lights on the car :evil: Carl had to use hand signals all the way to the abattoir :roll: - and it was all right turns!

 

The pigs were happily lying down in the trailer and then trotted out without a care. No squealing and everything there is so calm. It is a small abattoir - I don't think I could cope with a large place and lots of animals in holding pens. Ours go straight through and are despatched before we've even had chance to turn the trailer around.

 

As well as learning that pigs will eat anything, we also learned that at the moment, you don't put straw in the trailer as you have to wash the trailer before leaving the premises :roll: We had to drive to a big straw heap and clear out all the straw - nice with bare hands :? - then we had to go and wash the car wheels and the whole trailer out under the watchful gaze of a DEFRA vet :? I had to use one of those pressure wash things that you pump up, to do all the wheels whilst Carl cleaned the inside of the trailer. I've really hurt my back :(

I only had my physio last night and was feeling really good this morning :(

 

I'll just have to sit here a while waiting for the painkillers to kick in :wink:

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