Boar and Chick

Yesterday Trevor and I went to visit Boar and Chick, a farm in Troy Ontario owned by the Veenstra family.

It was a very nice visit, Mark took us to see the boars, the piglets were so cute. These pigs are Berkshire’s , a breed originally from England. There were two stalls with piglets and their mothers, about ten piglets in each stall. Outside in one area were some pregnant ones and just around a corner on the way to the small lake there was another outdoor stall without about 5 small to med pigs. These pigs are black rather than the usual pink we are used to seeing.

They also had some lovely horses but unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of them.
There were a lot of chickens and they run free range in a very large enclosed area.
I also seen a Dexter cow which is a breed from Ireland and seems to be about half the size full grown as the cows that are native to Canada.

We really enjoyed our visit and Mark was a very nice host. He was very friendly and spent the time answering our questions about the animals. We brought home some of the sausages made from the Berkshires and they were really nice. Full of flavour.

We have decided that this year we would like to take more little trips like this. We also spotted a little café on the way out of Troy and hopefully we will get back out that way in the near future and stop at the café for lunch