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- Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:33 pm
- Forum: Feeding
- Topic: Feeding from the garden
- Replies: 1
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Feeding from the garden
We're busy weeding and thinning a large vegetable garden and wonder what is safe/unsafe (like parsnips) to feed Celeste and her 2 m.o. piglets. If they aren't taken out to graze, they've been receiving an armful of leaves from over-wintered chard. Now that we're moving them around the garden and orc...
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:45 pm
- Forum: Feeding
- Topic: scary price increase of feed
- Replies: 20
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Re: scary price increase of feed
Are past BKKPS newsletters available online?
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: Health
- Topic: injections
- Replies: 4
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Erysipelas, Parvo virus
What is the youngest that piglets can/should be treated for Erysipelas?
If the sow isn't to be bred again until mid-winter, is there any point in giving her Parvo vaccine now, along with first Erysipelas injection?
If the sow isn't to be bred again until mid-winter, is there any point in giving her Parvo vaccine now, along with first Erysipelas injection?
Natural Weaning
New to Kunekunes... After having GOS fatteners for the past three years, we've identified (with masses of help from Sam Jones -THANKS!) a 2 y.o. registered KK sow with her first litter of 3 piglets to get us started. Piglets are KK (each has two piri-piri) but, as they are not registered, we intend ...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Kunekune as companion for our GOS gilt?
- Replies: 3
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Kunekune as companion for our GOS gilt?
New member/first post, hope okay to start fresh (related to the "Mangalitza as companion for my kunekune" thread). :?: : Is it feasible to pair a Kunekune with a Gloucester Old Spot (GOS) gilt intended for breeding? Would the size differential be a problem? Background: We are a co-operative communit...