Gatehouse Homestead

Gatehouse Homestead 🌿Welcome: Gatehouse Homestead
where pigs, sheep, chickens & two kids roam free (mostly).

Built beside the railway with love, mud & lots of guessing, we’re figuring out farm life one cluck, baa & laugh at a time. 🐖🐑🐓

The girls are enjoying the sunshine and apples🍎
21/11/2025

The girls are enjoying the sunshine and apples🍎

04/10/2025

Update on the piggies too 🐖🐖🐖

Mum's are both doing well. They are now enjoying more space up under the oak trees. Pigs love acorns so they are busy cleaning up any acorns left by the squirrels 🐿️

Annie is thriving and still loves being held in our arms . She's getting a tad too big now though 🙈

We have had a busy few weeks with the animals and family. But we want to introduce you to our new arrival Harvey 🐴 I fee...
03/10/2025

We have had a busy few weeks with the animals and family. But we want to introduce you to our new arrival Harvey 🐴

I feel like we have our own little herd now. We went to go and see him a few weeks ago and he was in such poor condition we just couldn't leave him.

He was used as a breeding stallion and had been passed around. He was covered in lots of little cuts and scrapes,riddled with worms and generally just looked really lost. We discovered that he had only been with his previous owners for only 6 weeks despite them telling us they had owned him for a year.

He has spent the last few weeks decompressing and getting some good food and meeting Roman and Stanley. Roman isn't impressed he's now been moved down in the herd🙈

He's starting to look much better now and I can't wait for him to get up to weight . Here is a few pictures of his progress so far 😊

Duncan went home yesterday 🏡He was a whopper! Even Dave struggled to carry him. His new owner said she is so happy with ...
04/08/2025

Duncan went home yesterday 🏡He was a whopper! Even Dave struggled to carry him.

His new owner said she is so happy with him and he enjoyed porridge and banana when he got home.

They have been an amazing first litter for us now their mum Katie deserves some well earned rest 🐷

6 of Katie's piglets weaned and went off to their new loving homes over this weekend. They have been ace piglets to rai...
13/07/2025

6 of Katie's piglets weaned and went off to their new loving homes over this weekend.

They have been ace piglets to raise and their mum has been amazing 🥰

Just had Annie at the vets 😭 She showed up lame this morning. We thought her mum must have stepped on her, as she wasn't...
11/07/2025

Just had Annie at the vets 😭

She showed up lame this morning. We thought her mum must have stepped on her, as she wasn't putting any weight on her right back leg.
However she had a high temperature of 42 degrees c.
Vet said she has an infection in her knee and is likely due from a lack of mums colostrum when she was born.
So we were sent home with some antibiotics and anti inflammatories . Hopefully we will see some improvement over the next couple of days 🤞

Of course she fell asleep at the vets. This little piggy just loves sleeping on people 🐽🩷

04/07/2025

Laura and piglet update- sorry it's taken me so long.

I meant to keep everyone up-to-date with our journey. But it all really didn't go to plan and I completely underestimated how premature the piglets were.

We have had a really hard two days,with so much heartbreak. And we have been juggling work,school sports days,driving round to different stores and vets to try and get piglet colostrum and boosters all while trying to save the piglets that unfortunately weren't ready to be born yet and I'm so grateful to my husband,father in law , friends and vets . As we have all worked as a team to get through the last couple of days.

I've cried whilst cradling piglets that we have fought so hard to save and felt guilty for the mum and piglets that our efforts couldnt help all of them. But it reminds us that this is what's involved with raising animals. It doesn't always go to plan. But as long as we try our best and do what's best for the animals that's what matters.

Things are looking up though. I'm sure you will all appreciate the cuteness in the video and pray that this little one is going to make it 🙏

03/07/2025

THEY'RE HERE!

Sorry guys I was so tired when mum finished farrowing fully. I wanted to make sure all her afterbirth had come out and piglets happy before leaving them to go to bed. Finally got to bed at about 4am this morning 🙈

They are a beautiful litter of 8 but they are premature and we're going to have to monitor them closely as most of them still have their eyes closed. Normally piglets are born with them open.

It just shows what effect the extreme heat can cause. I don't think mum or the piglets were really ready to be born yet, but they're here and we'll do our best to help them survive 🙏

We are currently at 7 🐷
02/07/2025

We are currently at 7 🐷

02/07/2025

First piglets a boy 💙

Still no piglets yet from Laura . But she's getting closer and has plenty of milk coming in now. 🤞 It will be soon as sh...
02/07/2025

Still no piglets yet from Laura . But she's getting closer and has plenty of milk coming in now. 🤞 It will be soon as she uncomfortable and I think she must have a lot of babies in there !

Laura is showing early signs that her piglets might arrive soon!She hasn't eaten much today and is starting to become a ...
29/06/2025

Laura is showing early signs that her piglets might arrive soon!

She hasn't eaten much today and is starting to become a little restless.
I even tried her favourite food of strawberries and grapes but she only ate one grape ☹️ .
Bless her she is HUGE! 🙈 And I think she is very uncomfortable in this heat. Despite our best efforts to offer shade and wallow areas it's still been very hot.

Maybe we can guess when they arrive?
Her milk has started coming in and can be expressed by some of her teats.

Between days 109 and 112 days gestation the piglets will be classed as premature I'm a little worried as we are quite early but If she can hang on until Tuesday which will be 109 days gestation then we will be ok.

The extreme heat and large litter size can bring on early labour. So let's hope there's not too many piggies in there !!

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