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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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<blockquote data-quote="bitwrx" data-source="post: 7207449" data-attributes="member: 86972"><p>Outdoor pigs in winter is effing hard work, but those working hours sound silly. We're strictly 0700 till max 1700 here (unless something has gone badly wrong!).</p><p></p><p>The PIC unit may well have been where our first breeding animals came from. I think we got into pigs around '88/'89 ish with PIC Camborough Blues. Unfortunately PIC have stopped supplying products that we want at the moment (i.e. live animals), so we've moved away from their genetics over the past few years. Shame, as they are a global success story, with fairly local roots, whose products have done us very well over the years. (Sounds odd referring to animals as 'products', but that is what they are marketed as...)</p><p></p><p>Will see if I can find out a few names of pig farmers round here from the time. A fair few have been into it over the years, and the old man remembers most of them I expect. The only tenant farmer who has pigs and arable that I personally know of in Wilts is up near Devizes which is north of us.</p><p></p><p>Loved the photies in general though. Makes me wish I'd taken more phots of the time I spent working away. Have plenty from NZ, but nothing really from round here. (Had a load of funnies from nuclear power stations over the years as well, but they are all on my old employer's file server somewhere, no doubt never to be seen again.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bitwrx, post: 7207449, member: 86972"] Outdoor pigs in winter is effing hard work, but those working hours sound silly. We're strictly 0700 till max 1700 here (unless something has gone badly wrong!). The PIC unit may well have been where our first breeding animals came from. I think we got into pigs around '88/'89 ish with PIC Camborough Blues. Unfortunately PIC have stopped supplying products that we want at the moment (i.e. live animals), so we've moved away from their genetics over the past few years. Shame, as they are a global success story, with fairly local roots, whose products have done us very well over the years. (Sounds odd referring to animals as 'products', but that is what they are marketed as...) Will see if I can find out a few names of pig farmers round here from the time. A fair few have been into it over the years, and the old man remembers most of them I expect. The only tenant farmer who has pigs and arable that I personally know of in Wilts is up near Devizes which is north of us. Loved the photies in general though. Makes me wish I'd taken more phots of the time I spent working away. Have plenty from NZ, but nothing really from round here. (Had a load of funnies from nuclear power stations over the years as well, but they are all on my old employer's file server somewhere, no doubt never to be seen again.) [/QUOTE]
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