Author Topic: Photos of our girls! (Read 3572 times)

stitch366 · « **on:** August 18, 2011, 10:25:08 am »

Picked up our pigs from Little Miss Piggy last Friday, first time with pigs for us. They are so gorgeous, really friendly, just hope when the time comes that I can send them off to the abbatoir!

Womble · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2011, 12:55:57 pm »

Awwwww

welshlass181 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2011, 12:56:43 pm »

lovely

wish mine were as quiet as these lol

stitch366 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2011, 01:24:26 pm »

They are lovely, I didn't realise what little characters they would be. Only had them 6 days and I am already attached to them..... made the mistake of naming them...... after The Three Degrees.. Sheila, Helen & Valerie!!! was going to call them Pancetta, Parma & Chorizo but OH said that was not a good idea!!

Already lining up getting three more (for a seperate pen) in 8 weeks time then at least when it is time for the girls to go I wont have empty nest syndrome!!

little blue · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2011, 08:11:44 pm »

they're gorgeous!
kune crosses?

they look delicious anyway!

faith0504 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2011, 08:43:59 pm »

they are lovely

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2011, 11:06:32 pm »

What little beauties. LMP please share how they're bred - BH is wanting as big a mixture of colours and patterns from our OSB as poss ... (I know, I know, breeding 'dolly mixtures' makes robert spit - but they'll just be for meat and it all tastes as good, may as well have a bit of fun with the cuteness!)

Ah-ha! Detective work in Marketplace ... these are the Duroc x OSB, yes? Very cute, BH would like those. Plus the Duroc is a good muscley pig, am I right? Do you know where I could buy Duroc semen?

Sorry, stitch366, for taking a tangent off your thread. It's just they are so cute and I thought they had some OSB in them...

stitch366 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2011, 09:23:13 am »

I think LMP said that Mum was a cross between OSB & Duroc and Dad was a Berkshire? It is nice having 3 from the same litter that are completely different

. One thing that has puzzled me a bit, I thought they would love the apples from our trees but they completely ignore them when we throw them into their pen, we even cut them in half to see if that would encourage them but they are still not interested. Also tried giving them the leaves fom our cauliflowers & Broccoli and they dont like those either?

They just seem to want to eat the pig nuts and grass. I thought pigs would eat most things??

Leri · « **Reply #8 on:** August 19, 2011, 11:13:01 am »

Really? Altho when we had a couple of OSB's they weren't mad for apples - but did eat them. Our GOS x 's love apples - but then they are the 'orchard pig'! :-) x

sabrina · « **Reply #9 on:** August 19, 2011, 11:30:33 am »

Very sweet girls, my 2 love apples, bananas, strawberries, pears. Not so keen on veg apart from carrots.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #10 on:** August 19, 2011, 06:42:46 pm »

My OSBs practically lived on apples last back end. (Not really. But they did get a lot of apples, and loved them.) Meg's favourite food is bananas (skins and all.) She can peel an orange with her nose and eats the flesh, leaves the skin.

They've eaten pretty much everything I've offered them, just don't like citrus peel or oniony things. It did take a while for them to decide to drink the whey from our local cheese-maker, but now it's Meg's top favourite, after bananas.

Maybe try feeding them the not-pig-nuts food at a different time - when there's nothing else on offer?

Barrett · « **Reply #11 on:** August 20, 2011, 03:28:22 pm »

As they are your first pigs you will of course get attached to them however, we still name nearly all ours, i had a litter of 7 that i bought once and they were called the 7 dwarfs Grumpy always stood out, Bob the boar is running with Porsche at the moment you can tell my kids name the pigs, but when they break through the fencing or bite you bottom a bit to hard you them realise that they are not pets and they just get bigger and bigger you will be fine.