Farm Fare #7: New Blood

Vaughan wants to expand our big breed mix even further now.  So voila...we have a new sow.  She is  aa purebred Berkshire.  I have named her Rosie (Vaughan calls her Berkie) and its a bit of a struggle settling in.

Rosie is about 14 weeks old, and although she is bigger than the piglets - there are 18 of them!!  They are incredibly noisy and boisterous and roam as a pack!!  Besides that the other two sows don't seem to like her.  On the first night she was kicked out of the pens and Vaughan found her shivering in the mud - poor thing!  So in the dark and rain, V blocked off one pen for her.  The piglets could still visit but she was protected from the big pigs!  The next day she was roaming in the big pen with Rocky (which the piglets can't get to) and even slept with him in his dry hut.

She's obviously a bit shy still but she get used to us eventually.

Rosie at 14 weeks - on day 3 at Te Pahu farm