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pig moving again



 This morning we managed to move two lots of pigs to their new enclosures. The first two pigs followed the bread and didn't take that long crossing the path.


They are now content and very happy to have a ready made wallow kindly filled by the torrential rain of last night. Boy did it come down with a terrific thunderstorm and lightning illuminating the sky.


The second two took a little longer. Pigs are really scared of crossing over where an electric fence once was. This makes them very difficult to move and patience is needed  to not scare them. Bread treats running low they finally managed to follow the path up with a bunch of other pigs looking on.


Once they crossed the line they moved swiftly into their new enclosure where they are now sniffling and earthing up the green foliage.


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