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Xmas eve
Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Yep he's very content and happy . Kind of him to invite us round for a proper look before locking down the unit for bio-securityJamie looking well.
Do you use the camper van much ... I'm so tempted to buy oneTaking out bales with the new quad trailer.
Very pleased with it. Can’t hardly see where I went over the roots where if I’d used the merlo there would be two big ruts now.
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Do you use the camper van much ... I'm so tempted to buy one
Yep he's very content and happy . Kind of him to invite us round for a proper look before locking down the unit for bio-security
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Courtesy of an amazingly talented member on here....rhys got a personalised dribble bar and reeler
Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Nice pictures @JP1 the unit looks lovely too. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that they are only instigating biosecurity now when they should have done it before they moved any pigs on the place, or are you talking about Covid biosecurity?Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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The site has been a construction site up until now. No entry to pig areas throughout. Now it's totally shower in / out, pig free for 48 hours minimum to even get through the front gate. I should have made my post clearerNice pictures @JP1 the unit looks lovely too. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that they are only instigating biosecurity now when they should have done it before they moved any pigs on the place, or are you talking about Covid biosecurity?
No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).if that’s modern day farming, can understand why the anti’s don’t like it,
Not a piece of straw in sight,
I am an indoor pig farmer amongst other things. I would hate to keep my pigs like those in the US for example but this chap justifies the way he keeps his pigs quite well I thought.No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).
Piglets just like babies born in near hospital conditions
Depends on your viewpoint but you have to ask who's welfare is most important
As in all things it's the management that is the key to welfare
I passed a few outdoor units on the way home and they have their own challenges (and I say that as a very keen student of yesteryear who really wanted to go in to outdoor production long before it was fashionable)
No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).
Piglets just like babies born in near hospital conditions
Depends on your viewpoint but you have to ask who's welfare is most important
As in all things it's the management that is the key to welfare
I passed a few outdoor units on the way home and they have their own challenges (and I say that as a very keen student of yesteryear who really wanted to go in to outdoor production long before it was fashionable)