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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: HappyHippy on August 02, 2013, 08:17:36 pm

Title: Hey there Delilah
Post by: HappyHippy on August 02, 2013, 08:17:36 pm

Our Large Black gilt had her first litter this week  :excited: Dad was a lovely registered GOS (we couldn't get an unrelated LB boar without a considerable drive and since she was a gilt we decided to go for the 'guarenteed first time' method instead of messing about with AI (that's the plan for future litters  :thumbsup:)
I was expecting one or two spotty pigs (at least) but they all look like little baby blacks - super cute mega ears  ;D

They're only coming up to a week old now, but we're taking bookings for anyone who wants weaners around the end of September (tie it in with coming to the Smallholder & Grower Festival at Lanark if you want to - we'll bring them over for you  ;))

We'll have gilts and castrated boars and also due (hopefully imminently  :fc:) are a litter of OSB's cross GOS - both mammies run together and will do with their piglets, so there shouldn't be any problems if you want ginger spotty pigs too  :innocent:

Title: Re: Hey there Delilah
Post by: gavin davies on August 02, 2013, 08:48:15 pm

Congratulations on the new arrivals

Title: Re: Hey there Delilah
Post by: Bionic on August 02, 2013, 08:59:18 pm

They look lovely little piggies  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hey there Delilah
Post by: ppd on August 04, 2013, 06:56:47 pm

 :thumbsup: They look lovely

Title: Re: Hey there Delilah
Post by: Mammyshaz on August 04, 2013, 08:10:11 pm

 :love: cute little black bundles.