Adorable Moment Pigs Touch GRASS for the First Time

Credit: SWNS / Hayley Hubbard

This is the moment a mother pig and three of her piglets squeal with delight after feeling grass under hoof - for the first time ever.

The three little piggies, and a more circumspect mum, run around with excitement as they step out onto a field after a lifetime in a concrete pen.

Mummy pig Georgina, three, had spent all her life in a concrete pen - where she was used for breeding - and had never been outside.

She and her three piglets Mo, Larry and Curly, were rescued from a farm in Huddersfield, West Yorks., and eventually taken to the Lotus Lamb and Sheep Sanctuary in Pulborough, West Sussex.

Hayley Hubbard, 51, owner of the Lotus Lamb and Sheep Sanctuary, said: "The mum had spent all her life kept in concrete pen along with her piglets, who once weaned were sent to slaughter.

"They had never seen the sky, the sun and never felt grass beneath their feet. They had no enrichment - just four walls."