Livestock

On Friday the 28th of March Dot the school pig gave birth to six healthy piglets. Four gilts, (females) and two boars. Labour started at about 5 o’clock in the morning and it was all over by mid-day.

She was ably attended during the birth by our own animal technician, Julie Priest and her assistant, Andy Moir.

In the euphoria of the occasion, Andy penned a few immortal lines:

There once was a sow called Dot
Who usually grunted a lot.
One day she woke up, feeling pretty wound up,
And popped out six piglets to sup.