On Sunday, Gijsbert (63) slept in for the first time in fifty years. “Now that most of the pigs are gone, I could do the rounds by myself,” says Marjan (55). Checking whether the animals were healthy and filling the feeding troughs. For years, when they had 3,000 pigs, the rounds took a lot longer. On Wednesday, 70 more pigs were collected and the last 20 pigs will stay for another six weeks and then go to the local village butcher.