Oaklands Pigs once again attended the “Connect with the Countryside” event at the South of England showground. Around 5,000 children from Year 10 and 11 came from schools around Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
We were part of the farm animal section with cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and poultry amongst other more exotics. A lot were surprised to see how big pigs were at six months old and many did not know that pigs had hair, they thought they would be smooth skinned.
Our two January born saddlebacks and a January born Landrace were already experienced hands at the shows and were not phased at all by the crowds of children all wanting to stroke them and slept through most of the shouting and running around from the excited onlookers.
