The countdown to our first arrivals...

Easter weekend marks the arrival of our first four pigs.  Alan has been busy this past weekend readying the field.  The pictures below were before his work started.  He's added barbed wire to the fence and gate in the front by the road.  Also, started the two enclosures for the pigs.  We are starting two spaces ready for rotation.  The pig arc is coming this week, hopefully Thursday or Friday.  Our arc is from Solway Recycling (http://www.solwayrecycling.co.uk/products/shelters-pig-arcs.asp) and is 8x8, we've gone for the one with a small entrance.  Alan is thrilled as he doesn't have to build one!  

Our last batch of pigs were housed in a straw bale house with a corrugated iron roof which did the job nicely but as we hope this is a long term project we need something more flexible.  Also, something that won't take Alan a whole day to build and 27 straw bales that are useless for anything when you are done.  A waste, basically.  But it did the job perfectly for 10 months, and would have lasted another season had we stayed on our friends land and let the land recover.

More pictures and updates as this labour intensive week progresses!