Driffield Today: Cruckley pigs head for new life in Japan
GLOBE-TROTTING pigs waved sayonara to their home, Cruckley Animal Farm at Foston-on-the-Wolds to start a new life - in the land of the rising sun...They were sent by farmer John Johnston, the owner of Cruckley..."It may seem silly, but you get attached to the pigs when they are in quarantine and, when we went to load them, I was thinking about them flying to the other side of the world...They won't understand Japanese or anything! But they will hopefully have a great new life when they get there...The Black Berkshire pigs are very popular in Japan. They originally come from the Orient and the Emperor of Japan still has some Berkshires, so the Japanese keep coming back to Britain for more"...more...
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