THESE latest arrivals – already dubbed the Magnificent Seven – are causing quite a stir at a Purbeck farm attraction.

Mum Candy gave birth to the seven new Zealand Kune Kune piglets a week ago.

When the Daily Echo caught up with farmer Phillip Palmer, he was in the process of finding out just who starred in the classic 1960 western, so he could finally given them their names.

In case you were wondering, the stars of that Hollywood blockbuster were Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Cobourn, Horst Buchholz and Brad Dexter.

So Yul, Stevie, Charlie, Bobby, Jimmy, Horst and Brad it is then.

Phillip said: “The children absolutely love the new piglets – they sit and watch them for ages. When the piglets are active they run around and playfight all over the place.

“They can act pretty mad one moment, then five minutes later they are all under the heat lamp in a little piggy pile.”

Mum Candy, who took three hours to give birth, is constantly nursing the new arrivals.

Phillip said: “The father, a seven-year-old boar called Charlie, is not particularly keen on them though.

“He’s already moved out to a pen outside in order to get some peace and quiet.”

The piglets will eventually be trained up to become the Purbeck farm attraction’s racing pigs.

“We do pig racing in the summer, so when they are a little older they will be perfect.

“It’s a little too early to say which of them has good form at the moment though,” said Phillip.

However, throughout April Farmer Palmer’s will be holding sheep racing.

Phillip said: “We race them over jumps with little jockeys on their backs – heavens knows what our horses make of it all.”