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Our Newest Addition - Wild Boar1680 x bekekenHaving obtained our License to Keep Dangerous Wild Animals from the Malvern Hills District Council, we have just purchased a wild boar, sow, and four wild piglets from Cleeve House Farm. Here's the boar as he took his first prowl around his field.
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Wild Boar's Snout9978 x bekekenLook at the length of his snout -- almost longer than his body.
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Wild Boar608 x bekekenLooking quite content in the tall grass.
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Wild Sow Sleeping in the Tall Grass582 x bekekenLooks more like the African jungle than sunny Worcestershire. The wild boar wrap themselves in tall grass, and almost make a nest for themselves.
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Richard Chamings (right) and Big and The Wild Boar1296 x bekekenOur newly-arrived wild boar has a prolapse, possibly from all the rich, new grass at his new home. Here Big (left) and our vet, Richard Chamings operate on the boar's rear. Tranquilising a wild boar proved to be quite a challenge: he just didn't want to lie down.
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Richard Chamings Performing Surgery on the Wild Boar752 x bekeken
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Wild Sow Enjoying the Summer Afternoon633 x bekeken
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Richard Chamings With the Spring Hypodermic Needle702 x bekekenGetting close to the wild boar proved to be quite a challenge. Richard was finally able to to administer the tranquiliser using a spring-loaded syringe.
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"New" Wild Boar838 x bekekenWe picked him up on August 27 2005. The existing wild sow doesn't really like him, but so far he's kept his distance and there haven't been any real fights.
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Wild Boar Feeling Frisky4775 x bekeken
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Sunflower603 x bekekenThis sunflower -- and only this one -- is growing along the fence in the wild boar field. The pigs haven't even touched it.
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Wild Boar808 x bekekenThis is the young wild boar, almost laughing at me. I'd rather him laugh than chase me . . .
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