Swamp Farm had not really been crowded since Obama, the black thoroughbred, had left. No one new had been appointed to help run the henhouse or supervise the guard dogs.

And with Pig Trump now away visiting other farms, there was not even the regular groans and panicked meandering of Wombat Spicer and his team (wombats don’t run) after reading one of Pig Trump’s tweets.

Farm production was up, especially since the farmer at nearby Carrier Farm had been seen sharpening his axe on the wage rate stone. And the chickens had also seen the hen houses from Carrier Farm being packed into trucks labelled “Taco ?Transport ??”.

The television ? spluttered into life. It was, as always, tuned to FOX ? News.

And there on the flickering screen of the television was Pig Trump and his wife Melania at Chicken Soup Farm. The animals were fascinated to see Melania. She rarely came to the White Barn.

But everyone agreed that Pig Trump looked very Presidential. Although one of the blue chickens pointed out that while every pig looked good in a uniform, Pig Trump looked even better with two personal polished 747s, an honour guard and 20 Rottweilers with earpieces running along beside.

Everybody had thought that Meerkat Jared was pretty smart. He had money and was married to the golden pony Ivanka. Although some of the crows had pointed out that inheriting all the slum henhouses and only being admitted to Farmvard College after his father offered to buy a new perch for the academic owls ? gave him a special start in life.

But now the press crows were saying that Meerkat Kushner had been caught creeping out at night to meet the bears.

And everyone knew the FBI bloodhounds ?? watched the bears, who watched the bloodhounds, who watched the bears who……

So perhaps he was not so smart after all.