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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: doganjo on December 10, 2011, 11:14:56 am

Title: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: doganjo on December 10, 2011, 11:14:56 am

Nearby Paradise Island may have a swim-with-dolphins program, but it's Exuma Key in the Bahamas that has what may be the world's weirdest water-going wildlife: pigs. Interestingly, a group of hogs is often called a drift, a particularly fitting name for this group


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/swimming-pigs-in-the-bahamas_n_1139257.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/swimming-pigs-in-the-bahamas_n_1139257.html)

ENJOY, piggy people!  I did, and I'm not  ;D

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: Fleecewife on December 10, 2011, 11:40:22 am

Thank you Annie - that's made my day  8) :pig: :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: robert waddell on December 10, 2011, 11:50:45 am

its a good one       but have seen it before       somebody started to feed the pigs and they come out into the sea to get food      to bad when they the feeders trip up and become the food source :farmer:

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: JulieS on December 10, 2011, 12:52:10 pm

Fantastic  :) :) :) :) :) :)

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 10, 2011, 01:16:01 pm

Lovely!  (Are they Oxford Sandy & Blacks?!)

And I could almost feel the heat as well  :D

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: Bionic on December 10, 2011, 01:19:56 pm

Does that mean when I get my pigs I have to provide them with a heated swimming pool?
Not sure the OH will go for that one  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 10, 2011, 01:24:33 pm

Quote from: Bionic on December 10, 2011, 01:19:56 pm

Does that mean when I get my pigs I have to provide them with a heated swimming pool?

Oh, had you not already got this organised?   ;) :D

Seriously, those Bahaman pigs must get very overheated - and swimming in such warm water may not cool them down very much at all!

I think Meg would love me to heat her wallow - there are only a handful of days a year hereabouts that a pig really needs a wallow to cool down in...  :(

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: little blue on December 11, 2011, 04:18:50 pm

half way to a casserole?! (sorry!)

Title: Re: Happy as pigs in WHAT?????????
Post by: princesspiggy on December 11, 2011, 05:08:00 pm

we were just browsing the web and saw pig in pool with its owner too.
cute...tho the men were running i see! lol