A mixed year for the Redborne school farm pigs with regards to the weather but rain or shine we tried our best!
Suffolk Show is always our first stop in the showing season and by this point we hope to have the young pigs trained and our show coats washed and ironed ready to go but as soon as we hit Suffolk we realised we we're in for wet and windy weather.
Our class was an inter-breed September Gilt class and we gained a 3rd and 4th place rosette and
this qualified our 3rd place gilt to go in to the best of breed class.
On the second day due to
high winds and the sheer amount of rain we had had, the show cancelled. So we
had to decide what to do about the qualifying rounds, we decided to
continue showing inside the pig tent in our
wellies and now not so white show coats, and, to our delight we gained
the Best Saddleback pig in show rosette.
East of England show was
another wet one but every body kept their spirits up and although we
were showing in a very muddy show ring we gained a 2nd place rosette,
which is not bad considering the breeder of the
1st place Saddleback has been breeding these pigs for sixty five years!
Hatfield show was a
scorcher and by this point in the show season our show pigs had decided
that they would rather act like greyhounds and run around the ring, not good
in that heat! But in a massive class of nearly
20 Saddleback pigs we came 8th so we can't complain too much!
Over all we had a great season and have already chosen the pigs for next years show season!
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