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Thanks for the warm welcome , so nice.I am in Essex, and we breed rare breed pigs - we have 2 sows, Marigold (who is my baby) who is an oxford sandy and black, and Daisy who is a large black. Our boar (spot) is one that we got and was meant to go for meat, but we had him from 8 weeks and he was so placid and good we decided he would make a good boar. He is an oxford sandy cross, and him and Marigold make brilliant babies between them. At the moment Daisy has 8 babies with her - they are 7 weeks old so will soon come off her, and Marigold has 6 of her babies left which were born in August - we sold the others as weaners, she had 10. Marigold is also pregnant, but Spot trod on her ear (ok they are enormous and he probably couldn't miss them) and it tore a tendon. She has had lots of love and attention and is getting better by the day. We also have 16 hens of different species - the white leghorn being my favourite as their eggs are gorgeous, and a pony which we 'inherited'.Until we started breeding our own pigs I was vegetarian, mostly because I hated the thought of animals being raised in poor conditions, but now eat our meat and we swap other farmers for beef and lamb, so all in all am pretty much self sufficient in meat, eggs and when the allotment going well veg.