[robert waddell]

as title pinky the hampshire is farrowing photos will be uploaded later           hampshire crossed with a tamworth

[robert waddell]

[Bionic]

Oh how lovely, I want one
 
Sally

[Dizzycow]

Me too. They're gorgeous.

[SallyintNorth]

Gorgeous!   

[princesspiggy]

cute 

[little blue]

lovely ... and what a difference in size between them!

[HappyHippy]

Oooo Ginger hampshires 
LOVELY !

[SallyintNorth]

I worked on an intensive pig unit in the 70s.  They weaned at 7 days.  The sows went from tethered dry sow stalls to tethered farrowing crates to tethered service stalls to two free-running visits to the boar to small kennels until PD-ed in pig then back to the dry sow house. Horrible horrible.  Lovely people but a horrible regime for the pigs.  To achieve these results they had a complex breeding programme involving 4 breeds.  After I'd been there a few weeks, my boss was telling a customer, "Our breeding programme involves crossing the [I won't have this right, it was too long ago, but it was something along these lines] Cotswold with the Landrace, then the progeny with the New Hampshire and the gilts from that are put to the Large White.  And since Sally has been here, we also keep the pretty ones."

On one occasion I had carried a female piglet into their bungalow and along to his wife's bedroom (where she was ill in bed) to get her support to keep the beautiful pink-and-ginger with faint black blotches as a breeder.  Your third-from-the-left is a ringer for her! 

[Hilarysmum]

Lovely piglets, glad they wont be kept in the same way as Sally experienced.  Lovely story Sally but so glad that tethering is lo longer legal in EU.  (I hope).

[robert waddell]

the breeding aspect of keeping any livestock is always an education   with this Hampshire it was her last chance of getting in pig (if not she would have been culled
she is slightly larger than the boar and older, her litter sister has already farrowed and back in pig to the Hampshire she just would not let him come near her (when in season and there is no pure semen for Hampshire's)    we were a bit disappointed with the colouring of the hamlops (they have a predominance of the lop colouring   with the erect ears of the Hampshire
Lillian's face was a treat when the first ginger popped out      she had 9 in total the first one was dead born   then six born alive  followed later by another dead one (after the cleaning) followed with another dead one this along with another bit of cleaning
weights    the black and white ones weigh around the 4lbs mark with the Ginger's  just on the 2lbs
there is another breeder that is contemplating the same cross      it would be interesting to recross the Ginger's to see if they would breed true
sally did your boss let you keep the ringer

[white-blazes]

lovely ... and what a difference in size between them!

I was just going to say that - the look cute

[SallyintNorth]

The cute piglet lived, yes.  Though in truth it was not a great life I was condemning her to, eh.   

[Rosemary]

The ginger and white ones are just toooooo cute.

[robert waddell]

is that an advance sale  rosemary?