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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: gavin davies on April 08, 2013, 03:57:30 pm

Title: wallow
Post by: gavin davies on April 08, 2013, 03:57:30 pm

hi everyone now that the land is finally dry and it has got really dusty over the last week or so should i make a wallow for the pigs if so what is the best way to it when i just tip water on the floor it seems to dry up very fast would burying an old bath in the ground work or would they just drink it just intersted how other people do it

thanks in advance

Title: Re: wallow
Post by: Fowgill Farm on April 09, 2013, 09:23:22 am

They only really need a wallow if the weather is hot, i wouldn't bury a bath in ground as they might fall in and drown! Just keep tipping some water in the same place and they'll make a wallow themselves if they want it, dry but bloody cold and frosty here this morning so mine have had a munch, a drink of the warm water i used to melt the ice on their water trough and sodded back off to bed! Wish i could.
Mandy :pig: