Day 13: This week's shopping task sends housemates down to the farm
Today, the Big Brother House became the Big Brother Farmhouse. And to earn their shopping budget this week, the housemates will all need to muck in.
Christopher, Jale and Marlon are the farmers, in charge of making sure the farm runs smoothly and turns a profit. As for everyone else? They're the animals.
The Big Brother farm boasts a few different kinds of livestock. Pauline, Steven, Kim, and Helen are pigs, while Ashleigh, Toya, Winston and Chris are cows, and Matthew, Mark, Danielle and Ash are chickens. Each 'animal' will need to work to make food to sell to Big Brother. The more they sell, the better their chances of winning a luxury shopping budget for this week.
But it won't be easy. Big Brother will be expecting quality farm-fresh goods, and plenty of them. The farmers will need to decide how hard to work their animals, and any animals who don't pull their weight might find themselves shipped off to the 'slaughter house'...
Will the housemates embrace the hearty farming lifestyle, or are they city slickers at heart? Come back later to find out how they're getting on.
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More details courtesy of Tellymix
The Big Brother 2014 housemates will be split into farmers and animals for this week’s shopping task.
The House will be converted into a working farm with the aim of making a profit. Three Housemates will become the farmers and must make cost saving decisions based on the welfare Vs cost margin of their animals. To pass, Farmers must meet or exceed a predetermined target profit which is sealed inside a locked milk urn from the top.
The Housemates will be divided into different groups:
* Three Farmers : JALE, CHRISTOPHER & MARLON
* Pigs
* Cows
* Chickens
The farmers are responsible for making sure that the farm is profitable by ensuring that the animals are making enough products to sell to Big Brother.
The animals will all wear very plain, basic navy boiler suits with a matching hat featuring animal accents (cow horns, chicken comb, pig ears) that are stamped with factory codes: P1G / C0W / CH1CK3N
The farmers will wear worker trousers, long sleeve shirts, wellies, waistcoats and flatcaps.
The animals will be kept separate in the day, in their own enclosures – chickens and pigs are in the Large Task Room and cows are free to graze in the Garden. Their sole purpose is to create produce for the farmer to sell and they must work hard to ensure that they are producing enough.
Throughout the task the farmers must make various decisions which will affect how much produce the animals will make, but these will come at a cost to the Housemates welfare.
The animals will each work in shifts:
SHIFT 1 – CHICKENS:
The chickens must fill cartons of eggs. The chickens will be cooped up in battery cages next to each other. An egg shoot will be positioned to one side of the chickens. They must catch the eggs that roll down without breaking them and then pass them, mouth to mouth, along the line to the Farm assistant who will box them up. One complete carton of six counts as one unit for sale.
SHIFT 1– COWS:
The cows will make whipped cream. They will use cream from the milking tub. The Cows will use a manual whisk to whip the cream which they will put onto plain cupcakes. While they are working, the Farmer will be asked to motivate them using a cattle prod.
SHIFT 1 – PIGS:
The pigs must make sausages. Two pigs will ‘mince’ meat with their feet (like squashing grapes) in a trough of raw mince meat and sausage filling. The other two pigs must collect the meat and use an electric sausage stuffer to make links of sausages. They pass the links of sausages to the Farm Assistant who will package them up – four links to one tray equals one unit.
Now of course, the Farmers must feed their animals. Food will be delivered to the Store Room in buckets labelled ‘cows’, ‘pigs’ and ‘chickens’. The farmers must collect the food and then deliver it to the animals in their enclosures. The farmers will tip the food into the animals’ troughs. Each animal has a different type of feed.
Cows get ‘Cattle Feed’; Pigs get ‘swills’ and Chickens get ‘Pellet Feed.’
After the animals have eaten, the chickens and Pigs will be allowed to get some fresh air in the Garden. They have pens in the garden to sit in as they are not allowed to roam free. While all the Animals are outside, Big Brother will deliver the Farmers a lovely delicious picnic for them to enjoy – right in the middle of the garden in front of all the miserable hungry animals who then have to get back to work..
SHIFT 2 – CHICKENS:
The Chickens must make bottled pre-mixed cheese omelette. They will be given ostrich eggs with straws in them. They must suck up the egg liquid, gargle it/swish it in their mouth and then spit into a bowl for the farmer to collect. They must then nibble some stinky cheese and spit this into the mix. The farmer will collect this and funnel into cartons.
SHIFT 2– COWS:
The cows are connected to fake mechanical milkers in the garden and make butter and buttermilk by shaking cream in jars to separate them into two products. The cream is inside a tub above their heads so that it looks like the cream is coming from the cows. The farm assistant sieves off the milk into milk bottles and the butter into tubs. Two scoops of butter per tub equals one unit and one full bottle of milk equals one unit.
SHIFT 2 – PIGS:
The Pigs must make onion and anchovy flavoured gourmet sausages – they will chew these flavourings and spit into the mix they’re mixing with their feet.
Later, the farmers in the Diary Room select the three animals – (one from each group) that they feel haven’t pulled their weight in work shifts – to send to the Meat Reclamation Factory.
In the Diary Room the Farmers are asked questions. Each animal must guess what the Farmers answered.
For every correct answer an animal gives he or she will receive money towards the profit. If they are incorrect, they will be squirted with “pig’s blood” will be squirted from a spout facing them in the middle of the table.
The animal with the most correct answers will win a meal for the rest of their animal group.
After a hard day on the farm the Farmers will be rewarded with a warm delicious dinner. The animals will be delivered their basic feeds again and protein shakes.
Finally, The cows and farmers will sleep in the regular Bedroom. The Pigs and Chickens will sleep in the Large Task Room. The pigs will be given pink blankets, pillows and camping mats. The chickens will be given burlap sheets, burlap pillows and camping mats.
2.06pm The 'pigs' are preparing to get to work in the sausage factory. #BBUKLive
2.34pm The pigs have finished their first shift, and Farmer Christopher is pretty pleased with their work. #BBUKLive pic.twitter.com/07cAZCGQaA
2.53pm The farmers are feeling guilty about having a swish picnic lunch. Not guilty enough not to eat it, mind
3.07pm Mark's really styling out that chicken hat. #BBUKLive pic.twitter.com/OpSiFgxSI9
3.32pm Toya is hungry. Or maybe she's just jealous of the cake she's not allowed to eat. #DontFeedTheAnimals #BBUKLive
This is one of the many times when I miss Live Feed.
Originally Posted by Baz:
Well they've got Pauline, Helen and Steven right ....pity Toyah wasn't in the pig sty too ...although guess the cow byre is just as appropriate !!
4.59pm Chicken HMs are filling egg boxes by passing eggs from beak to beak. It's going well. pic.twitter.com/ih4YXOF1bE
5.17pm Pauline says if she was one of the farmers, she'd make the HMs make animal noises. Now there's an idea.
well your not so shut it !!
12.02am: Some of the HMs have to sleep on hay tonight. Mark is not exactly ecstatic about it. #BBUKLive pic.twitter.com/nFXefhHmXX
2.24pm: It's task time and the farmers and their animals are shovelling manure
3.02pm: Here's Ash with an armload of manure. #BBUKLive pic.twitter.com/3mFteEbIif
3.16pm: The task is over. Have the housemates done enough to win a luxury budget??