Thursday 31 August 2006

This little piggy went to market...




My first encounter with pigs was great!...
The college at Oatridge breeds pigs, keeping around 100 females and 6 males, producing hundreds of piglets reared for the food industry.
We were shown around the farm, observed how the pigs were kept and the different stages along the way, from boy meets girl to the larger groups of piglets, ready to leave the farm. Females having just been seperated from their litter required vitamin injections. Cue vet' students-that's me in the top left injecting a sow with a vitamin supplement. First pig injection, very successful!

Wednesday 23 August 2006

How much does a sheep weigh?

Baaack to basics with the sheep. We moved, herded, identified, condition scored, aged, weighed, assessed, flipped and trimmed feet of sheep at Easter Bush. No lambs yet though. (And just incase you were wondering, this suffolk ewe weighed in at 42kg).