Pigs in woodland

[Rod Dumbreck]

I went to look at a VERY run down farm in W.Cumberland many years ago with the possibility of buying it . There was a big area of it overgrown scrub with all kinds of weeds, rhododendrons . and brambles through it all . I thought then that the easiest way of reclamation would have been free range pigs , but it all came to nothing as I was looking for an income as well ! I was also a bit afraid of the rhododendrons possibly being poisonous .

I know rhododendrons are poisonous, to my cost, having lost some ewes that had eaten some. I believe that a sharp frost was somehow to blame, as a bunch of lambs in the same field had not touched the Rhode at all. I haven't a clue as to whether pigs would get in trouble in this situation.

 

[Hilly]

Just in a home made ark with a single electric wire to keep them where I want them , never had any escape with single electric. Just sitca and scotch pine stand .

 

[ShooTa]

Just in a home made ark with a single electric wire to keep them where I want them , never had any escape with single electric. Just sitca and scotch pine stand .

thats some very odd single wire surrounding them...

 

[Hilly]

thats some very odd single wire surrounding them...

Ha that’s just a guid to get them in first day or two .
Until they know routine

 

[Dry Rot]

Has one lost an ear tag?

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Has one lost an ear tag?

Bother, looks like it, although I did think they have theirs in different ears. Bound to be a different applicator to sheep or cattle isn't it.

Edit: Luckily both have a tag (at the moment)

 

[hollister]

It is in the other ear