Piggies are still here

After the not so great experience of letting the piggies out for the first time we have been nervous about letting them out again. They have been locked in their pig house and we have been spending plenty of time with them to get them used to us. We decided this morning that they were ready to venture forth again.

Although we don't give meat animals names, they have to get kind of descriptive tags to make it easier to know who we are talking about, this pair had to be Pinky and Perky. They are both girls. Perky has a sore rear leg, we are not sure what happened, it was fine when she was doing a runner but the next morning it was not right. We were happy when we let them out that it seemed better, maybe the less earth was less slidey and easier for her.

We intended to let just Pinky out, but then we decided they felt more secure together so we let them both venture forth. The first time we let them wander around for half an hour while we watched them and then put them away for a nap - lured back in to the house with food.

In the afternoon we let them out again and left them for a couple of hours on their own before putting them to bed for the night. 

We didn't feel they were quite ready for freedom yet as they are a bit jumpy. They touched the fence a couple of times and jumped back - which is a good thing, better than ploughing through! We were worried though that if we left them alone too long something would scare them in to running through the fence. Perhaps tomorrow they will be more relaxed and ready for full time freedom. I think they enjoyed themselves though, they ate some grass, they ate some chestnuts, they dug some holes, life is good!