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18/04/2008, 17:41 petra Joined on 18/04/2008 Posts 19 Re: A Pigs Tale and a spot of gloucester old spot and two trotters free to a good home!! I mentioned earlier we used to run a farm and we too reared our pigs like pets really. My kid's adored them and played with them, gave them names! Then come the day they had to go to slaughter.... We had Gloucester old spot, Welsh whites and Tamworth's. After a few years, we had a mixed herd of Gloucester, Tamworth and Welsh....the meat won True Taste awards twice, and we were on the map for a bit. Then hubby got bored with it and we came here, for an adventure and warmer summers. *sigh* I miss having hens too, I thought I'd have found a free-range egg farm hereabouts. I think the reason the meat tasted so good was because they were treated so well and were never stressed...except when they arrived at the slaughter house. But we made sure they didn't have to wait. Off the trailer and straight to their deaths! Blimey! Sounds rather melodramatic eh? Sorry!!    Report

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