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Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Help!! New to this!!
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2011, 03:10:04 pm »
I have eleven grandchildren aged from 14yrs. down to eight months. They all love my Kunes and I have never found the pigs more than gentle.
HOWEVER!!!!!!! Pigs are not sensible, thinking beings and a small hand is no different to an apple in their eyes and they will, albeit accidentally, give a hard bite. So, scratching of backs and the backs of ears is lovely but I don't let the tinies  hand-feed and the older children have learnt how to give a banana sensibly :)
My pigs have also, very easily, learnt to sit for a treat, even the boar :)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Help!! New to this!!
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2011, 02:01:44 pm »
Thank you sylvia, do they like small children

Why aye, they'll eat most things.   :D ;)  :yum: ::)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

But the serious point is that, as Sylvia says, the pigs have to learn to avoid fingers and the fingers to feed in the correct way to avoid being bit.  (Same applies to grown-up fingers.)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

thestephens

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • aberdeenshire
Re: Help!! New to this!!
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2011, 03:09:55 pm »
going for the obvious joke........like children but couldnt eat a whole one! Kune Kunes are very friendly pigs and hopefully they have been well socialised!

 

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