I'd be careful about Tamworth crosses: lovely pigs but we had some that were real escape artists. I think they might have had mole in their ancestry the way they dug! The GOS sound good.
You know, when I started thinking about keeping pigs many moons ago Tamworth's were the one breed I wanted, but following advice I went for lop eared pigs and stuck with them being wary of the Tamworth's reputation
Diggers, escapers, the racehorse of the pig world etc etc etc. Maybe it's because I've kept pigs for over 5 years now, but having aquired 2 Tamworths this year I've got to say they are brill
Really friendly, quite easy to manage (they're no worse than any of the others really) and they've only escaped once, but it was through an open gate so I can't really blame them. Maybe I've been lucky with these ones ? Maybe there's time for all that to change before they go off ? Maybe we'll go up to feed them tonight and they'll have dissapeared just to prove me wrong
But the one thing with them though - they DO dig ! Massive holes and absolutely trash the ground, but it's nothing that a roller, a bit of grass seed and a bit of time won't change
Karen