Flying Pigs

[HayleyB]

Ok, ok I haven't gone completely bonkers but there's nowhere to post this thread so my best chance is here so ok it could have been chit chat but it is 3.48am.

Has anyone got any pigs, I'm ummm, errrrr, weeeelll, just thinking, contemplating........

Tamworths...........

[Snadger]

Oh noooooooooo!!!! Keep Lynda away from this thread!

[Polly Fouracre]

Hayley, we haven't any pigs at the moment but plan to get some next spring. Not to keep and love but to fatten for the freezer. I'm told Oxford Sandy and Blacks make the tastiest meat but I'm sure what they're fed on makes a difference.
We also plan to get some lambs.
Keeping pigs to breed from is a wholly different game and not one we can contemplate yet.
If you go onto the River Cottage forum there are a lot of people who can give you good advice.

[MaureenHall]

Never mind Lynda! It's me that'd LOVE a pig, and a lamb and a cow and some Llamas and a small smallholding to keep them on with loads of chickens running around and a tea-room where I can serve home made cakes and biscuits and sell jam and marmalade and chutney and a farm shop where I can sell meat that's had a life and proper farm veggies and and and and ................................... My turn to win the lottery this week!

Sorry Hayley, don't know where you can get a pig, but like Polly said, the River Cottage forum is ok for things like that. They're not as friendly and daft as us on there so don't go thinking about deserting us

[MaureenHall]

BTW why you on here at 3.48am?

[lynda66]

she's seen it ......regarding Tamworths ...... i don't really like them, comes from being attacked by one, and pinned behind a wooden fence for over an hour, when trying to inject it's babies (whilst farmer pee'd himself outside) ..... horrible massive evil ginger things ..... if you're gonna eat em, then make sure you have a big freezer ........ if you want cute ikkle piggies i'd go for something much more pink and cute ........ did you know you can house train pigs and teach them to sit, and fetch ..... and do all the things dogs do

wherever you are going to keep them, think rhino, but smaller. ie if it will keep a rhino in it will keep a pig in ..... they are brilliant escape artists

can you tell i do love pigs ??

[Glutton4...]

I think we may be related Hayley

I'm planning Lambs for fattening in the next couple of years, then moving on to Piglets too after that

Just getting my head round Chooks first - have just broken the news of tomorrows white ones to my folks. They took it well (considering it's their garden)

[HayleyB]

Oh noooooooooo!!!! Keep Lynda away from this thread)

ROFL you make me die snadger

Hayley, we haven't any pigs at the moment but plan to get some next spring. Not to keep and love but to fatten for the freezer. I'm told Oxford Sandy and Blacks make the tastiest meat but I'm sure what they're fed on makes a difference.
We also plan to get some lambs.
Keeping pigs to breed from is a wholly different game and not one we can contemplate yet.
If you go onto the River Cottage forum there are a lot of people who can give you good advice.

Thinking for breeding and for selling meat, I gather blacks are not so popular due to the black hairs on the skin.

BTW why you on here at 3.48am?

Insomnia and my Zoppi didn't work, cause I only took one not two, eventually went to bed at 5.35am and slept for a couple of hours. Hitting wine tonight to make sure I sleep.

she's seen it ......regarding Tamworths ...... i don't really like them, comes from being attacked by one, and pinned behind a wooden fence for over an hour, when trying to inject it's babies (whilst farmer pee'd himself outside) ..... horrible massive evil ginger things ..... if you're gonna eat em, then make sure you have a big freezer ........ if you want cute ikkle piggies i'd go for something much more pink and cute ........ did you know you can house train pigs and teach them to sit, and fetch ..... and do all the things dogs do

wherever you are going to keep them, think rhino, but smaller. ie if it will keep a rhino in it will keep a pig in ..... they are brilliant escape artists

can you tell i do love pigs ??

Oh gawd, I thought tammies were smaller than that, I don't wanna train em though as it'll be harder to eat them. I definitely want rare breed weaners with a view to keeping a couple to sow. Maybe rethink the breed. Keeping a rhino in is a good way to put it but my friend/neighbour is a farmer and her sucklers kept escaping, made holes everywhere great fun chasing them back wouldn't like to do it all the time.

I think we may be related Hayley

I'm planning Lambs for fattening in the next couple of years, then moving on to Piglets too after that

Just getting my head round Chooks first - have just broken the news of tomorrows white ones to my folks. They took it well (considering it's their garden)

Knew you would in the end, your folks may not be so ameniable when you come home with porkies though

Hmmmmmm, more thinking needed......

[lynda66]

Oh gawd, I thought tammies were smaller than that, I don't wanna train em though as it'll be harder to eat them. I definitely want rare breed weaners with a view to keeping a couple to sow. Maybe rethink the breed. Keeping a rhino in is a good way to put it but my friend/neighbour is a farmer and her sucklers kept escaping, made holes everywhere great fun chasing them back wouldn't like to do it all the time.


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they really are evil when they have babies ...... which i suppose is a good thing if they are free ranging and theres wolves about lol .... mind you when you're behind a splintering wooden gate inside a stable, nowhere near the door or window........ with a mother pig trying to turn it into matchsticks round you ..... maybe they seem bigger lol

but there were 8 of em, and i don't think any of them liked me

the middlewhites were lovely though, dead tame, affectionate and easily trained ...... even the boar (who was called porky) was a sweetie.

[Snadger]

Could quite fancy an iron age pig..........and the dog does like pigs ears!

[MaureenHall]

My son always wanted a pig when he was a little boy because pork was his favourite meat. He said we could keep one and when we wanted a nice roast for Sunday dinner, we could anaesthetise it, cut off one of its legs and give it a false one

[Glutton4...]

Knew you would in the end, your folks may not be so ameniable when you come home with porkies though

LOL - I've got my Dad on my side though, so that's half the battle. In fact he's already looking at fencing prices, so we're on the right track!

I DO like to get my own way!

[HayleyB]

Hmmm, fencing and money could be a problem.......

[FionaH]

My son always wanted a pig when he was a little boy because pork was his favourite meat. He said we could keep one and when we wanted a nice roast for Sunday dinner, we could anaesthetise it, cut off one of its legs and give it a false one

That made me chuckle Inventive souls kids?

[lynda66]

That made me chuckle Inventive souls kids?

can just imagine a huge bionic porker ...... with all it's eatable bits made out of metal