Looking for a New Home

Its time for some of the piglets to look for a new home, can I tempt anyone?

Cabbage Soup Anyone?



A big heap of cabbages in a Romanian market, the place was full of it, some of the finest heads of cabbage I've seen. The nearest thing that they got to a bag of 10:10:20 or a chemical spray was passing a pharmacy in the trailer on the way to the market. The 'organic' tag wouldn’t do them justice, they are just 100% au natural.

The sad thing is that the farmers will more than likely get guided/pushed into the 'conventional' farming methods. When what they are already producing its top class. Hopefully policy makers will recognise the quality of product the farmers are producing and not rush to guide them towards the mass produced, generic products system of farming.
btw.... I got some funny looks from the locals, when I was try to take the snap, they must of thought I was soft in the head.

Teenage Kicks

The little dudes are not so 'little' anymore.


The are over 8 weeks old, and man can they eat! In the next 2 weeks it will be time to relieve sally of her mothering duties and take the piglets away from her. They will then be feed solely on grain, no more milk.

I thinks she deserves the break, its rumoured she is heading to New York for a weekend break and to shop til she drops. Aparently Gap do some great stuff for the larger sized lady.

The Romanian Tony Saprano

The fella in the picture with me is Attila Buzogany Bemeot.


He is from the Tagru Mures Region of Romania. I have nicknamed him the"king of his village" He was our 12 year old guide around the hills that surround his local village. A great charcather.......... he was able to fill us in on all the background of the village and knew all the locals. He quit smoking last year because of the health risk, his hobbies include burning birds nest and mushroom collecting, and ladies im sorry but he is off the market ....... he has a girlfriend.

Poor Mr Fox.......Not

The Hunt is a traditional part of this area, and it paid us a visit last week. They hardly ever catch a fox, as he is far to clever for them. All he gets is a good work out running from the hounds.


It was a timely call, as he paid me a visit the night before, breaking in to one of my runs and killing 5 - 7 chickens. What happens is: he/she kills as many as they can, but only brings away 1 or 2. So the sight that met me in the morning was a hole in the chicken wire, 5 dead chickens and 60ish super stressed out chickens! Needless to say security measures have been step up, but we haven't quiet the budget yet to install security surveillance cameras, so don't worry, I wont be posting footage of future killing sprees.

The surviving chickens held a memorial to their departed comrades and are in counselling for post traumatic stress disorder........... all are recovering well.