As you can see from the photo William is still unhappy with me. What a look of reproach!
We have lost one of the pigs, he went off his food, the vet came and gave him an antibiotic injection, this morning he was dead .He was such a big potbellY that we had to call in the local farmer to move him, 4 of us couldnt budge him an inch.Poor old pigwig, there are now 2 left so will need to keep an eye on them as the vet did not know what was wrong with the one which died ,I think it was the change of weather but he was quite old so could be anything.Pigs are not as hardy as they look and can go off so quickly.Just days ago they were all enjoying their favourite food -bananas.. If the other two go off their food Ill have to call out the vet again.
I had a phone call from someone offering us 40 bales of hay free of charge so have been ringing people to try and get it collected from Anglesey.The farmer who just helped with the pig and who also does building work for the shelter has just offered to collect it for us, also free of charge.As good quality hay is now £4.50 a bale, this will be a great saving for us. Its good to know there are people out there willing to help.Good things DO happen occasionally in shelters, just not as often as we would like.
We have also been offered free grazing for a couple of our ponies so am going out to check the fields over the next few days.We often get offered grazing but I dont usually accept because if there is nobody available to do daily checks on the ponies it is not suitable.In this case the lady who offered is happy to check and care for them whilst they are there.
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