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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Tricky Trev on October 14, 2012, 09:10:39 pm

Title: our new piglets
Post by: Tricky Trev on October 14, 2012, 09:10:39 pm

managed to upload photos at last our homemade creep area worked a treat its a upside down site gas heater

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Beewyched on October 14, 2012, 10:19:55 pm

Very ingenious Trev  :thumbsup:
Cute wee OSBs - surprised mum let you pick them up tho - my OH's were ready to kill me if I went anywhere near theirs for the first month or so  :o
Have you got a heat lamp over it?  Just it's hard to work-out from the angle of the piccy.
 :love: :pig: :love:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: jaykay on October 14, 2012, 10:36:03 pm

Piglets are ridiculously cute anyway, but those two are especially gorgeous  :love:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Tricky Trev on October 14, 2012, 10:40:02 pm

yes got heat lamp its a gas one i made up because we have no electricity its a site heater that's turned upside down and bolted to creep bars works a treat .mothers not bothered at all about us picking them up shes really placid

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Beewyched on October 14, 2012, 10:44:15 pm

Quote from: jaykay on October 14, 2012, 10:36:03 pm

Piglets are ridiculously cute anyway, but those two are especially gorgeous  :love:

Clever Trevor  :thumbsup:  (sorry  :roflanim:  - couldn't resist )
Glad you've got a placid OSB mum -  IMPE they turn into she-devils when they've got wee ones  :o

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: HappyHippy on October 15, 2012, 08:36:21 am

Awwwwwwwwww, look at those wee faces  :love: :pig: :love: :pig: :love:
OSB's are soooo cute  :excited: :excited: :excited:
Thank you for posting Trev  :thumbsup: and well done on your first farrowing  ;D
Karen

(Oh yeah, my OSB sow is super protective of her babies  ::) but is getting better with each litter  :fc:)

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 15, 2012, 09:51:01 am

Excellent work Trevor, fantastic creep set up, just whats needed.
Mandy :pig:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Mrs Snoodles on October 15, 2012, 11:04:18 am

Lovely little piglets there  :love:    Super creep area, a really good idea. Worth the hard work  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Bionic on October 15, 2012, 11:10:40 am

They are sooo cute  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: sabrina on October 15, 2012, 11:20:00 am

Very cute indeed  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Daisys Mum on October 15, 2012, 11:21:15 am

 
Awwwwwww. They are so cute I do miss that bit not breeding my own but hey someone has to be a buyer not a breeder.

Title: Re: our new piglets
Post by: Sudanpan on October 15, 2012, 05:43:01 pm

How did you manage to pick them up without them squealing the place down?? Respect!