Normally our pigs are outdoors 24/7/ 365 but the ground is so wet and there’s 2 foot of mud outside their arks. Not great for the sows and certainly not good for the piglets so we brought Trudy and Socks up to the lambing shed just before farrowing. Actually I was a bit slow bringing Trudy up and she’d already farrowed when we went down to get her.

Getting her up to the shed wasn’t too bad. Carrying her piglets across the put from the ark to the dog crate was the trickiest bit. Six trips with 2 piglets at a time wading through 2 foot of mud, I was knackered.

The piglets are almost 4 weeks old, old enough to go outdoors. Trudy and Socks were really pleased to be back outside on grass.