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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Bodger on April 01, 2013, 06:43:42 pm

Title: I've only gone and done it!
Post by: Bodger on April 01, 2013, 06:43:42 pm: Errr!!!!!! I've bought a pig. ::) A GOS sow called Pru to be precise and I'll be picking her up the weekend after next. I've got to get my skates on now to get the place ready for her.
I'm going to have to join the BPA. That costs £50 even though I'll only have the one one sow but I don't have a choice if I want my new purchase to produce registered piglets.
I've booked her in for a few nights of passion with a pedigree boar in Colwyn Bay and the magnitude of what I'm letting myself in for , is just dawning on me. :o I'm feeling pretty excited I can tell you. After a break of 25 years I'll have my own Gloucester Old spots and cider too. What a combination :excited: :excited: :excited:
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Post by: kja on April 01, 2013, 07:06:06 pm: :thumbsup: welcome back to the world of pig breeding john.
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Post by: suziequeue on April 01, 2013, 07:06:59 pm: How exciting. ;D ;D

We have had weaners but never gone the whole hog ('scuse the pun) with a sow in pig.

:excited: :excited: :fc: :fc: :D
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Post by: Bodger on April 01, 2013, 07:21:39 pm: We kept Landrace and GOS sows almost thirty years ago but this is a jump back in to the unknown for us. :o
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Post by: Berkshire Boy on April 01, 2013, 09:23:38 pm: As you have kept pigs before you should know they need company of their own type.
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Post by: Bodger on April 01, 2013, 09:27:42 pm: I do and its in hand. :innocent:
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Post by: Blinkers on April 01, 2013, 10:41:35 pm: :thumbsup: ;)
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Post by: Berkshire Boy on April 02, 2013, 10:48:08 am: That's good sorry to nag. :relief:
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Post by: Bodger on April 02, 2013, 02:38:09 pm: Thats no problem. All I've got to do now, is to persuade my wife that having a couple of weaners at the same time might be a good idea. Hence the :innocent:
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Post by: john and helen on April 02, 2013, 06:35:33 pm: sounds fantastic ... really looking forward to following the updates
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Post by: Tudful Tamworths on April 09, 2013, 09:52:00 am: Best of luck. If I can help at all, drop me a PM or email.
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Post by: Bodger on April 09, 2013, 01:50:39 pm: Big Ginger Pigs! It took me a while for the old mind to compute youe website address. :idea: Thanks for the kind offer. :farmer:
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Post by: Rosemary on April 09, 2013, 06:03:15 pm: Have you got Pru yet? :excited:
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Post by: Bodger on April 09, 2013, 07:25:45 pm: Next Sunday. It'll be a really early start. :farmer:
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Post by: mwncigirl on April 09, 2013, 07:30:24 pm: Congratulations. Have you booked her in with one of Mary's? If so she'll be well looked after :excited:
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Post by: Rosemary on April 09, 2013, 08:50:06 pm: So will she be in pig when you get her?

Nice synergy - make cider and feed the apple pulp to Pru = very happy pig ;D
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Post by: Bodger on April 10, 2013, 10:35:18 am: I'll be borrowing a GOS boar about four weeks after she gets here.
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Post by: hughesy on April 10, 2013, 10:46:08 am: Quote from: Over the Gate on April 10, 2013, 10:35:18 am
I'll be borrowing a GOS boar about four weeks after she gets here.
You might want to make sure he's trained to leccy fencing too OTG.
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Post by: Bodger on April 10, 2013, 12:49:09 pm: He is. :excited: