The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: alisstuf on November 02, 2010, 01:45:38 pm
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Well folks been busy the last few weeks. you may remember both my gilts had their piglets 2 & 3 weeks age. We have a good mix, some striped iron age as expected but the majority seem more tamworth than any thing else so may have to introuce slightly more wild boar!!
HOWEVER!!! Spot the odd one out! Isn't he cute???
Also lots of sausages down the line- 6 boys 4 girls
Think spotty might have to stay :love:
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oh they are so cute :love:
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Spotty is gorgeous! :pig:
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The faeries must have sneaked him in to be special.
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So cute! :pig:
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gorgeous!
we have 1 ginger & 4 white-with-black spots piglets .... think the piglet fairy got them muddled up??!!
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ahhh realy nice well done :pig:
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Need to leave clearer instructions for that fairy next time!!!
Nice to have something a little different though but dosen't do much for improving our iron age line!
He'll have to be a pet only (knew I'd be a softy)
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Its the joy of smallholding we can keep pigs as pets ....
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...note to self *DO NOT tell my O/H about alisstuf's "wrong" spotty pig! *
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Oh wow! they are beautiful!!!! I am broody for piglets!! ;D
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to have Iron Age pigs you need to have a female wild boar crossed with a pedigree tamworth so you dont get the aggression of the wild boar that you would with a tamworth sow crossed with a male wild boar.
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Hi lillian
We bought the gilts in pig from a farm that has been developing there iron age over the years. We have a tamworth boar for future breeding, the gilts(sows) are not pure tamworth but from tamworth X wild boar. Our other young boar has more wild boar in him as do 2 future gilts. Piglets seem to be a mix, some have the stripes, most seem more tamworth than anything else and we believe the spotty one has come from GOS used way back for tempermant.
This is what we were told anyway!
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Lovely collection, wild boar, gos and tamworth all in the same litter - who could ask for more. ;D
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Hi
We have breed iron age with the tamworth, your sow should be black. The piglets in the photo are no different to tamworths (new born pedigree tamworths have stripy backs just a different shade of red) when I was at collage the pig tutor informed us that a pig put to a white boar in the morning and a black boar in the afternoon, half the piglets would be white and the other half would be black. You have to remember the piglets inside their mother resembles an airfix kit. The only logical explination is she was mated with a gos as some of the tamworth piglets are spotted this is the only problem with dolly mixture pigs, they are neither one breed or another just themselves and once they are dispatched and reformed as sausages and bacon there is no difference or at least very little. There is no substitute for pure breed even if they do look cute. The other thing with Iron age or wild boar is, if you handle the piglets (when the squeeling starts) the wild boar or Iron age mother even if it is not her piglets she will charge through anything to protect the young. I personally would not recomment any Iron age pigs to anyone unless they are very experienced with pigs and very athletic.
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I suppose you could paint them all to match ;) lovely piggies ;D