Topic: getting some piglets tomorrow.

[hippydave]

Well tomorrow i get 6 Hertfordshire piglets ;D, i cant wait.
Im keeping them on a small holding just up the road from me so i should have some very nice pork for the end of year ;)

[BarriedaleNick]

How exciting! Do report back on your piggy related adventures as i'd love ot hear how you get on..

[davyw1]

Good luck, braver man than me with all the rules and regs on how to keep them and feed them rural parish holding numbers and all the rest that goes with it.
Hope it all works out.

[hippydave]

yer these is a lot of red tape involved (more than i envisaged anyway) but i have my movement order so i can pick them up now. i have an abattoir and butchers already sorted the same with a vet.
They wont be cheap but i will know they lived well and know what has gone into them when eating them.

[David K]

Good luck with your venture....it's something I'd love to do.

I can buy locally Gloucestershire Old Spot @ £75 per quarter pig, or  half a free range, rare breed lamb for £50.....also Dexter beef, though I don't know the price of that.

[hippydave]

Well the piglets are now settling in and are very friendly and inquisitive will be able to let them out into run tomorrow.

[gardentg44]

these where nine weeeeeks old.

[Jayb]

They look gorgeous, you are going to have so much fun  ;D

Good luck  ;D

ps looks more than 6?

[ACE]

Nearly all the old boys kept a pig at the bottom of the garden in the village when I was a yoof. You could win a dolly pig at skittles in the village fete as well. They were mostly swill fed and put on the spud patch to clean and turn it over after the crop was lifted.  The taste was nothing like the pork and bacon you get nowadays. We all had a swill bin allongside the dustbin which they used to collect from friends.

I would love to do it myself now.

[Melbourne12]

Good luck, hippydave.  We'd love to keep pigs, but we don't have the space.

[Digeroo]

We have a pig on site sorting out an overgrown plot.  She is doing a great job and eats most of the weeds as well.

They need feeding and watering twice a day 365 days a year. Silly things knock over their water.

Lovely to talk to, they listen to all your problems and then grunt encouragingly in all the right places. ;D   Love em.

[hippydave]

You can only see five here but i have a fully black one.

[pumkinlover]

What breed area they I am going to guess at saddlebacks but it is pure speculation?

[hippydave]

yes they are saddle backs they get very big so i have to make the most of them being small.

[pumkinlover]

Will they be fully grown when they go for.........?

[hippydave]

4 will be done at between 22 and 24 weeks when around 100/120kg and 2 will be left for bacon and done at 32 weeks and will be about 150/160kg and they are 6 weeks now so will have meat for christmas.