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- Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:30 pm
- Forum: Pigs
- Topic: Three little pigs in Scotland looking for a home...
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Three little pigs in Scotland looking for a home...
Due to a change in circumstances I am tentatively looking for a new home for my three pedigree kunekune pigs. All three are from the same litter, born 29 October 2010, and are castrated males: Hamish, Hagrid, and Hector. As you'd expect they're full of character, not over-weight, and completely used...
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:00 pm
- Forum: Feeding
- Topic: Feeding pigs Veg peelings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24350
Re: Feeding pigs Veg peelings
Like the others, our boys love bananas, apples and carrots. They've occasionally had raw potatoes but only a few and very occasionally. Not noticed any side effects. They won't touch onions or leaks though, and don't seem particularly keen on cabbages/lettuce/etc, which isn't a bad thing as the hens...
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: Feeding
- Topic: Substitue for grass in winter.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5363
Re: Substitue for grass in winter.
Ours is the same - horrible, clinging mud. I've given the boys free range to the whole garden so they've got a bit of dry ground. They do like sleeping on top of the hay box I build - this is just a cage made of stock fencing fixed to an old pallet to keep it off the ground, and filled with loose ha...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Biting Pigs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8623
Re: Biting Pigs
Absolutely right, and the precise reason we ate our cockerel fordinner a few weeks back - he was just too dangerous to risk him hurting either one of our own children or one of their friends.
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ark requirements and fox problems
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2147
Re: Ark requirements and fox problems
We got our three Kunes at 11 weeks and there's never been a fox problem. In fact they seem to actively discourage foxes from visiting the garden - presumably it's the scent - and so our hens remain hassle-free too despite us knowing foxes use our driveway as a shortcut to/from the harbour. As to hou...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pigs and midges
- Replies: 3
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- Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:32 pm
- Forum: Breeding
- Topic: People "Giving away Piglets"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6330
Totally agree about giving piglets away not being necessarily a good thing, and might encourage the less-dedicated. We don't breed from our pigs but in the past we have had several litters of kittens, and I've always made a token charge (~?20) for each one which then went to the local cats rescue pe...
- Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mangalitza as companion for my kunekune
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5412
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: bedding change?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1806
I tend to do it when it looks like it needs doing, generally. If the weather's been wet then it needs changing more often than if it's been dry and sunny, like lately. Even if it's been dry I'll still rake it out and dump any bits that look below par. Like yours, ours are very clean and never soil t...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mangalitza as companion for my kunekune
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5412
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: walking piggies... any advice / info / experience?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2610
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: best bedding...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4680
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:56 pm
- Forum: Health
- Topic: 'Disposal' of dead piglet?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5787
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 'Little' pigs?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2807
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winning kunekune at first Scottish Show
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2452