We've just said goodbye to an artist and photographer who were visiting the croft to photograph Doris, one of our Berkshire sows. Doris' image will be part of an artwork raising questions about attitudes to livestock, to food and waste, to food miles, and to food regulations.
Doris enjoyed a shampoo, trotticure, and massage with baby oil before being brought out to show her best side. She co-operated beautifully—so long as the praise, rubs and food treats kept coming. The pleasures of being an artist's model!
Pigs as art
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Green Aura
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Re: Pigs as art
I could do with a trotticure - the baby oil doesn't bear thinking about though 
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Re: Pigs as art
I would love all, or any of that! Did Doris get an evening out while she looked extra beautiful?? 
Did Doris get an evening out while she looked extra beautiful?? The cockerel makes the noise, the hen produces the goods!! anon
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Pigs are beautiful........just wish they didn't taste so good!
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We used to do this when we showed, in fact pre show filming of lines of old, gnarled pig-farmers oiling up large sows could easily find it's way on to some strange websites!
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I love it ...http://silverether.wordpress.com/
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The Big Lad took some photos of the action, but I haven't had time to get them off the camera yet. Been very busy picking apples and plums, with the potato crop to come.
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nice one stoney sounds like hard work a quite few years ago my dad was working at a pig farm and a huge sow took a liking to him mind you he was bald pink and about 26 stone he did'nt find it funny 
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