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.
Gijsbert and Marjan get rid of pigs and switch to nuts and fruit: ‘Our son now wants to take over the company’
