Pigs are here (ish)

We bought two piglets from Las Laous (http://www.laslaous.fr/) 

A pink one and a black one. 

We went to get them today in the pouring rain, sleet, then snow. Getting there and back went smoothly. We took Poppy for a nice walk on the way had a chat with the owners then drove home. 

We have revarnished and added some zinc to the top of the pig house and positioned it in the woods with two electric fences round it. One electric wire and the other sheep mesh.

We put the pigs in their new home, on letting the first one out the cage they had travelled in, it busted through the first electric fence, busted through the second electric fence and trotted off up the path with me desperately trying to keep it in sight. It bust through the fence round the cows and sheep and set off down the field then bust out the other side of that fence and kept going. I headed it off from going in to the woods a couple of times but couldn't get anywhere near it. Until it leapt on to a bramble thicket and started burrowing in, that gave me just enough time to catch it up, dive in after it and catch it by the back legs. Pulling it out was tricky as it struggled and screamed, but I was very determined and managed to hang on until Doug came and helped. Then we had a long LONG slog with a screaming struggling piglet back up to the enclosure.

They are now in the dog cage, in the pig house within two electric fences - with food and water. Hopefully that will contain them for the night and we can consider what best to do in the morning.

By the time we finished this was the view. You have to imagine sleet driving sideways in to you while you look at it.

Will they be there in the morning? Only time will tell...