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Three Little Piggies?

Regular visitors to the farm will know that in the summer months, we usually have a family of pigs tumbling about in the mud behind our Roman villa. This year was no exception, and we currently have two Saddlebacks and one Oxford Sandy and Black… But that’s not all! On Saturday we welcomed Michaela from Tedfold Cottage Farm in west Sussex, who carried out an ultrasound on our pigs to see if they were pregnant. The results? Not one, not two, but all THREE of our pigs are pregnant with a litter each of piglets! We aren’t sure exactly when they will be born, but we should hopefully be welcoming them sometime before the end of January. If you would like to say hello to our new arrivals, be sure to make a winter visit in February or March before they grow too big! Why not join us for our Imbolc festival on February 4th?
Watch our exciting announcement as it happened on Facebook Live: