Big Fat Pig Quiz 2022……………………20 Farming Through the eyes of a child

We are Grace and Henry, and we’ve just had our 7th and 6th birthdays. We live on our farm with our Mum, Dad and little sister, Sophie, who is 2.

On our farm we have lots and lots of sheep and some pigs, chickens, geese, dogs, guinea pigs, cats and a pony. Mum and Dad first started keeping pigs 5 years ago to help clear the garden and vegetable area. We’ve had lots of pigs since then, and they’ve all gone into our grandparents and friends freezers. Mummy taught us that the more love and care we give our pigs the better the meat is for our bodies at the end, and our pigs are easy to love!

We loved keeping pigs so much that we begged Mummy and Daddy to let us have some Mummy pigs so we could have our own piglets. They bought us 3 Oxford Sandy Blacks, who we called King, Queen and Princess. Queen is Grace’s pig and Princess is Henry’s pig. King was their brother so he couldn’t stay around for very long, plus he liked to bite our wellies so we enjoyed him as sausages.

We now have a temporary husband called Jack staying with Queen and Princess, which means they should have piglets before Christmas. It will be the best Christmas present ever and they will be amazing mummy’s.

Henry’s favourite part of farming is collecting the eggs from the chickens, incubating them and watching the chicks grow inside the shell using a special torch, and then looking after them once they’ve hatched. Sometimes we have our friends over to see this so they learn too! Grace’s favourite part of farming is having space to keep more and more animals, and she would like another horse, some ducks and a white cow. We both like to feed the pigs every day, and give them pig nuts and fodder beet. Whilst they are eating they love us to give them a scratch all over! We love their floppy ears and chatty oinks. We are at the farm nearly all the time as Mummy teaches us from home, and we love being able to be with our animals between lessons. Every week we go on an adventure, sometimes two, to the park, woods, beach, other farms, and we love going to our Martial Arts, Youth Theatre, cricket and swimming clubs too!