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A sunny autumn morning, a perfect time to stretch out and doze. Pigs at Northycote Farm. The ones on bare earth were young pigs, perhaps this year’s piglets, now well grown. The one on grass was mature, one of two in a different enclosure (its companion was resting up with the fence to close for […]

The rat (main picture) is from a statue on a bridge in Berlin portraying St Gertrude, a seventh century nun whose powers include the ability to disperse plagues of rodents. She is also a patron saint of cat lovers, cat owners and their cats, gardeners, herbalists, farmlands, good lodgings, travellers, pilgrims, recently dead people, graves, […]

Two of this year’s litter of Gloucester Old Spot piglets at Northycote Farm, searching for something to eat. Some of the piglets from previous years feature in these posts.

Two of the fast-growing Gloucester Old Spot piglets at Northycote Farm snuffling through squelchy mud in search of bits of their feed which had got buried. Some of the piglets had been doing exactly the same on my previous visit to the farm.

Only a few of Gloucester Old Spot piglets born in the spring of 2013 on Northycote Farm can still be seen there. This one was digging deeply in a muddy area of its enclosure in search of something the last time I visited the farm.

Piglets from two different litters of Gloucester Old Spots at Northycote Farm. They have already featured in a series of posts as they grew, most recently here. They’re now getting so big they won’t be piglets much longer.