Pigs

[Greenbeast]

They're great fun on grass, it's lovely seeing them rooting about on a warm day.
Yeah scrimping on food is not always the best idea. We get away with some potatoes and waste bread and veg, but predominantly a compressed pig pellet

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Good at dropping trees

 

[unlacedgecko]

They're great fun on grass, it's lovely seeing them rooting about on a warm day.
Yeah scrimping on food is not always the best idea. We get away with some potatoes and waste bread and veg, but predominantly a compressed pig pellet

When I had my garden weaners I had success feeding brewers grains I got free from a local micro brewery.

 

[Greenbeast]

When I had my garden weaners I had success feeding brewers grains I got free from a local micro brewery.

Yes, that is something we're always after, I have a brewery 2 miles away but unfortunately someone got there first

 

[Cab-over Pete]

My lad has a couple of Tamworth’s here at the moment, first he’s ever had.

We don’t really have an outdoor area they could have, so they are in one side of an old cow cubicle building, so masses of space. It’s a bit draughty so we put a little old hen house in there for them so they get cosy.

He’s got a chain hanging up, as well as a tyre on a rope. They’ve got a football too and he chucks in the occasional branch now and again. We cut a load of wood last weekend and they loved all the sawdust.

They’re growing well on a Heygates pellet. I’m not sure he’s going to enjoy it when they go but we had boar weaners so he has no choice really.

We got them from a local chap I’ve known all my life and he’s going to sort killing and cutting for us later.

Smashing little things, they love a good scratch and a tickle.

 

[Grem]

I've had Saddlebacks in the past and found them really fatty. Do agree, you need more than one esp for entertainment. I'm not sure re regulations on feeding anything other than a commercial meal these days - maybe check with DEFRA or local animal health office, better safe than sorry?
I remember an Esther Ransom programme years ago where a chap in America reared a pig all year and then killed it for Thanksgiving. He even took it to dog training classes.

 

[JP1]

Any one got some Saddle back weaners for sale mid end of may ?

Fadmoor North Yorkshire too far to go? Look up High Farndale on FB

 

[Greenbeast]

I've had Saddlebacks in the past and found them really fatty. Do agree, you need more than one esp for entertainment. I'm not sure re regulations on feeding anything other than a commercial meal these days - maybe check with DEFRA or local animal health office, better safe than sorry?
I remember an Esther Ransom programme years ago where a chap in America reared a pig all year and then killed it for Thanksgiving. He even took it to dog training classes.

Yes, most of the traditional breeds can run to far if you're not careful, some more than others.
Regards feed, nothing from a commercial or domestic kitchen. Fruit and veg and bread all fine. Brewers grain. 'Stock feed' potatoes

 

[Hesstondriver]

and you need to call them Sage and Onion

 

[Still Farming]

Swill regs. Stopped lot of that years ago.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

They do love a satsuma or two. We feed fodder beet to our sheep but they’re not keen on that.

 

[neilo]

They do love a satsuma or two. We feed fodder beet to our sheep but they’re not keen on that.

Maybe mine were less fussy than yours, but they loved beet when I pulled a couple for them. Don’t think there’s any great feed value in it for them, more as a plaything and a bit of variety.

 

[Campani]

Is there any species that don't rip up the grass. I've noticed there's a couple at coed y dinas, which you can see off the Welshpool bypass and they don't seem to be ripping up the field much...

 

[br jones]

I do a couple a year ,no fuss at all.normally Welsh/blacks

 

[Exfarmer]

Is there any species that don't rip up the grass. I've noticed there's a couple at coed y dinas, which you can see off the Welshpool bypass and they don't seem to be ripping up the field much...

If they are ringed it should slow them down

 

[Grem]

Yes, most of the traditional breeds can run to far if you're not careful, some more than others.
Regards feed, nothing from a commercial or domestic kitchen. Fruit and veg and bread all fine. Brewers grain. 'Stock feed' potatoes

Thank you for that - I knew there were some restrictions, but was unsure what they were. Food for thought for when the lambing shed is empty - if the boss will allow.

 

[Hilly]

Fadmoor North Yorkshire too far to go? Look up High Farndale on FB

No i like a trip out, will have a look cheers.

and you need to call them Sage and Onion

What not pinky and perky ?

 

[Grem]

No i like a trip out, will have a look cheers.

What not pinky and perky ?

They do love a satsuma or two. We feed fodder beet to our sheep but they’re not keen on that.

Best tasting I have had were a couple of Landrace/Large White crosses - we mixed their meal with left over Jersey milk. We always took them to 20 weeks but these 2 were over 120lb when we killed them. My father-in-law, who had kept pigs commercially for many years, couldn't believe the size of them at such a young age. There was very little fat on them, just a lot of very tasty meat.

 

[JP1]

No i like a trip out, will have a look cheers.

What not pinky and perky ?

Come down from Guisborough through Church
houses down to
Gillamoor and on to Fadmoor

 

[newbie]

I've found bananas to be a particularly favourite snack. They love them