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Title: Pigs in our front garden !
Post by: flowerpotkitchen on September 13, 2012, 07:05:11 pm

What a fantastic website, thank you for all your information, we are due to take delivery of our very first weaner gilts in a few weeks, we have been looking for a few acres for a few years local to our home with no luck, so that is it we have had Ardingly Arks set up our pig ark and we are going to be urban mini mini smallholders in our front garden!!!  The ladies will be joining our brood of chickens and vegetable garden, soooo exciting.

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Post by: Beewyched on September 13, 2012, 07:32:22 pm

Sounds like a great plan - you must keep us updated  :thumbsup:

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Post by: Bionic on September 13, 2012, 07:34:46 pm

Welcome to the forum :wave: . Enjoy your  :pig: :pig:
Sally

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Post by: luckylady on September 13, 2012, 08:09:26 pm

Looks like you'll have to evict the dogs before the pigs arrive!  ;D   Welcome to the forum.  Lots of piggy experts on here to guide you.  I'm not one of them though - I have sheep, horses, dogs and cats but I'm not allowed pigs  :( . 

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Post by: Mrs Snoodles on September 13, 2012, 09:06:33 pm

We too struggled for land for some time.  Piggies in your front garden !! wowzers!!  You will get absolutely nothing done you realise :) They are even bigger time wasters than chickens  :love:  :love:  :love:   Have fun. Snorkels are fab.

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Post by: Possum on September 13, 2012, 10:12:21 pm

It is exciting, isn't it? :excited: :excited:


We have a pair of weaners for the first time this year and they are such a joy! :D

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Post by: Mammyshaz on September 13, 2012, 10:19:44 pm

Just hoping the photo is not a piccie of the weeners you have been sold  ;D ( ripoff Britain and all that  8) )
If they are I'll take the middle and the left ones,  :love:

It is very  :excited:, don't forget the piccies for us when they arrive  :eyelashes:

I'm very jealous, our front garden couldn't house a guineapig it's that small  ::). Just post some piccies so I can ooh and aaaahhhhhh over your  new arrivals instead.
Have you forewarned your pups of their eviction?  :D

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Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 13, 2012, 10:36:31 pm

 :wave:  welcome from sunny Shropshire.  I keep goats in my back garden so why not pigs in your front garden?

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Post by: The Woodsiders on September 13, 2012, 10:52:54 pm

Good luck and many thanks, welcome to the Forum

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Post by: rispainfarm on September 16, 2012, 02:04:51 pm

Nice ark.  Bidgiemire was the first ark company that designed the removable floor with d rings to hold the top onto the skids, as seen in this ardingly ark picture. Its nice to see our design idea taken and  working for other ark companies.

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Post by: lill on September 16, 2012, 02:46:46 pm

Welcome from soggy Bathgate  :wave:

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Post by: ppd on September 16, 2012, 03:16:24 pm

Hello :wave:
Enjoy yor piggies ;D