Produce your own.........

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

Today became pig day! Started doing pen had a friend come give the posts and extra push in with machine. Then knocked up pig shelter...... then picked up 2 Tamworth X GOS weaners!

Just 2 rows of barbed wire at bottom of fence at minute....hopefully get elec fence up and running tomorrow. Last thing I need is em getting out.

The fun begins!!!

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

Ginger one enjoys a back and belly scratch!

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

Seem happy enough this morning, my little smallholding coming together now

[borderboy 80]

Looking good.
You want to sort the water out for them. Try and get them using a small auto drinker that they can’t make to much mess with, otherwise they’ll be living in a muddy hole before you know it. 

[WILF 46,634]

I had that cross and they eat very well mate.

Free range pork is darker, not that pale anaemic, tasteless stuff you buy in the shop.

You will never eat shop bought pork again.

”A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you and a pig looks you right in the eye”

Enjoy, pigs a great animals mate.

[WILF 46,634]

[Chaff 3,590]

4 minutes ago, WILF said:

A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you and a pig looks you right in the eye”

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

1 hour ago, borderboy said:

Looking good.
You want to sort the water out for them. Try and get them using a small auto drinker that they can’t make to much mess with, otherwise they’ll be living in a muddy hole before you know it. 

Few bits I need to sort like that, this isn't the long term pen if I keep em again. They are on here to turn it all over and make it a mess ready for turning into veg plots so don't mind too much. But food and water will be in troughs.

[WILF 46,634]

7 minutes ago, ryaldinhio said:

Few bits I need to sort like that, this isn't the long term pen if I keep em again. They are on here to turn it all over and make it a mess ready for turning into veg plots so don't mind too much. But food and water will be in troughs.

For water, make sure the container is fixed down or they will just turn it over all the time.

I used a post driven into the ground then fixed a cut down blue barrel to it so they couldn’t lift it.

I just bolted to the post through the side of the barrel (above the water line obviously ! Lol) 

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

2 minutes ago, WILF said:

For water, make sure the container is fixed down or they will just turn it over all the time.

I used a post driven into the ground then fixed a cut down blue barrel to it so they couldn’t lift it.

I just bolted to the post through the side of the barrel (above the water line obviously ! Lol) 

I was looking at one of these style.....I have a water supply close by that I can connect up.

[WILF 46,634]

1 minute ago, ryaldinhio said:

I was looking at one of these style.....I have a water supply close by that I can connect up.

If water is handy to connect then they seem a tidy job mate, maybe freezing in the winter would be aggro ?

Its a major job for me to run mains water and not worth the expense, long hose pipe, a plastic barrel and just smash the ice in the winter seemed like the cheapest, most practical job to me but then again, I’m a basic kind of bloke ! Lol (and a bit lazy !) lol 

[ryaldinhio 4,502]

Kids back from school and straight in with em. They went down lane to get some wind fall apples for them aswell.