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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: P6te on October 01, 2012, 10:29:28 pm

Title: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: P6te on October 01, 2012, 10:29:28 pm

Well, I've heard it all now ... According to to-days newspapers B&Q are starting to sell Pig Arks. See:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-1206108/From-chicken-coops-pigsties-B-Q-taps-Good-Life-extensive-garden-farmyard-range.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-1206108/From-chicken-coops-pigsties-B-Q-taps-Good-Life-extensive-garden-farmyard-range.html)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/6016314/BandQ-to-stock-pigsties-as-people-return-to-the-good-life.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/6016314/BandQ-to-stock-pigsties-as-people-return-to-the-good-life.html)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/oct/02/gardens (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/oct/02/gardens)

http://www.diyfixit.co.uk/magazine-diy-tools-a-products/product-of-the-month-pig-ark.html (http://www.diyfixit.co.uk/magazine-diy-tools-a-products/product-of-the-month-pig-ark.html)

Reading through some of the above links it could mark the start of a very worrying trend, their will be naive people looking to keep pigs without a clue what they are getting into.  I can picture pigs on the rampage flattening garden fences.

It seems that B&Q view it as a natural progression for people who currently keep a few chicken!!

Title: Re: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 02, 2012, 10:26:33 am

OMG  ::) :o  Just read some of the comments posted below the articles nad it si so worrying, think B&Q are being bloody irresponsible, the trouble is there are a lot of pig keepers out there breeding rubbish and wily nilly desparate to shift piglets......where will it all end? i can see loads of pigs come autumn turning up in rescue centres..... when we go to shows people say oh cute baby pigs and then i tell 'em yeah lovely but they'll grow as big as her and point to the biggest sow at the show, it doesn't half shock 'em!
Mandy :pig:

Title: Re: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: benkt on October 02, 2012, 11:09:58 am

Don't worry, those articles seem to be from 2009 and searching  the B&Q website today doesn't show any actual pig arks so perhaps they didn't sell...

Title: Re: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 02, 2012, 11:14:48 am

 :relief:  never noticed the dates ???  maybe we can stand down! :fc:
mandy  :pig:

Title: Re: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: P6te on October 02, 2012, 12:05:45 pm

I can't remember where saw it first or who told me but I hadn't spotted the date either!!  :-[

I'm pleased it isn't current but the comments show just how naive Joe public can be!!

Pete

Title: Re: Pig Arks from B&Q
Post by: princesspiggy on October 02, 2012, 12:40:38 pm

yes, i saw them a few years back. just small porker arks. not cheap tho.