Can Saddleback pigs swim? Or just look pretty on postcards?

They may need to if we get any more downpours like those experienced lately. For two consecutive weekends the monsoons have left the village of Lowick marooned. The local pubs pool table was floating around and the flood water was so deep the pub is closed for 2 months. There was so much water on the roads with all the autumnal leaves blocking the drains and the gaps in the dry stone walls that floods were up to 3 ft deep- impassable!
But did the Saddleback pigs need to swim? Fortunately not as all their arks are situated on the highest ground, but the mud is now so deep that they do need welly boots!! However the floods did wash out two of the pens inside my buildings and the slurry pit filled overnight.
Copious amounts of straw has been added to the arks so the saddlebacks have warm dry beds to sleep in. The highest placed arks were muddy inside as a months rain fell in 4 hours. Even saddlebacks hate rain and are not keen on deep cold mud so they now spend most of the days cuddling up together in their arks.
What of Jack the Saddleback boar experiencing manhood for the first time? Last week we swapped him for a new Vicount boar who knows his job. Unfortunately several of the gilts Saddleback Jack has had the opportunity of serving have returned to the Vicount boar which is really disappointing. Jack is now running with 5 young saddleback gilts vacated by the Vicount boar all of which should be in pig. It just goes to show that young boars can be a problem and are not guaranteed to do their job, in fact a lady from Ireland has a young boar who is totally uninterested in the Saddleback girls.
More rain is forecast-- and I have bought some more waterproofs!
What relevance is all this piggy talk to postcard printing you may ask?
Well Abacus prints Saddleback postcards for all the butchers who sell the Saddleback pork and promotional A4 sheets to distribute at the agricultural shows around the country.