Little porkey fur covered animals who insist on wearing real fur coats and hiding in dark secluded spaces are a challenge in Summer.
Yes they like being out in their run to eat grass and let the breeze waft through their whiskers. But they need to be protected against the elements and the predators.
In past years we've cut their bedding right back to equine cardboard shreddings to sleep on ( absorbant, pig safe but not insulating like straw), hay in loo roll tubes to pull at, re-inforced mesh lined removed windows (the spaces the window leaves has the re-inforced bit) a fan, and flat chill packs wrapped in newspaper.
Lots of nice fresh salady bits like cucumber, watermelon, crunchy salad bag .
Checking their rumps regularly to guard against flystrike.
Their menopausal Pig Slave can wander about in a vest top being hot'n'bothered but the piggies don't have such options open to them.
They are shedding their winter coats but my suggestions they lose a bit of winter fat was met with [hmm[] looks all round ............
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