Village Squire, 1978-03, Page 7of becoming a top horse. Another colt, that was born a year later,
she sold because it didn't show the same promise.
At one time we had some 90 sows running loose on pasture,
with an electric fence to keep them in. But a pig is an intelligent
animal, more intelligent even than the elephant. As with us
humans, some are smarter than others. So we always had the
one digging a hole under the fence, and going through without
touching the wire. Usually it wasn't too hard to chase them back,
as they remembered quite well the way they had gone out.
On one occasion the sow was pregnant and close to her time.
Even when night time came, she didn't return. She had gone into
the swamp and we couldn't find her. We found her tracks. We
heard her. We saw the places in the neighbours' grainfield
where she foraged, but we didn't see her. We knew her due
date, so on that date Annemarie made an extra effort.
When a sow is nursing she lets out a grunt everytime she lets
down a fresh squirt of milk, so when Annemarie went out after
school. she stopped every so often to listen and after a while she
heard the unmistakable sound of a nursing sow. As we didn't
know if the sow had gone wild and would attack in order to
defend her piglets, we had told the children not to approach. So
she marked the place in her mind and bolted home to report her
find. The whole family set out to capture the beast. I went in first
with a rope and tied her loosely, but carefully, to a tree, so she
couldn't get away. Next we fetched the tractor and the stoneboat
(This is a flat piece of sheet metal, used for hauling stones from
the fields). On this I placed a crate and, dragging all this behind
the tractor we raced back to the scene of the nativity. Quietly we
picked up the little piglets and took them home in a basket. The
rope with which the sow was bound we treaded through the
closed end of the crate and unto the tractor. Squealing and
protesting she was dragged into the crate, tied into it and in
triumph she was brought home and into the barn, to be reunited
with her babies. And we didn't lose one piggy. She raised the
whole dozen.
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