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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: fifisoo on September 23, 2013, 07:10:00 pm

Title: Pigs and mint
Post by: fifisoo on September 23, 2013, 07:10:00 pm

Our little pigs had us in stitches tonight. At feeding time we chopped off a pile of mint as we have a rather large bed of it, we thought we'd try out the pigs with it. They took one sniff and started rolling in it.

Obviously my ladies like to smell minty fresh :bouquet:

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: Bodger on September 23, 2013, 08:11:34 pm

I was going to say that surely its got to be apple with pork. :innocent:

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: Small Plot Big Ideas on September 24, 2013, 09:09:02 am

I'll definitely have to try that with ours at some point - we have plenty of mint in pots around the place and I'm sure our pigs would like some freshening up!  ;D

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: little blue on September 24, 2013, 08:48:36 pm

Haha!
 Will throw some in for my girls before their new fella arrives at the weekend!!

(they are religiously applying mud pack already!)

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: verdifish on September 25, 2013, 09:59:08 am

Having recently given up smoking I now quite often find myself with a packet of extra strong mints in my pocket, the pigs go crazy for the to the point where I'm teaching 1 of the young gilts all sorts of tricks but the best thing is she sucks them and the faces she pulls are classsic ..

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: Eastling on September 25, 2013, 11:26:49 am

Verdifish that sounds like a  good video clip in the making!

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: little blue on September 25, 2013, 09:19:52 pm

Our german shepherd Sheba is mint-mad - will take them out your bag, your pocket, your mouth.... !!

Title: Re: Pigs and mint
Post by: fsmnutter on September 26, 2013, 09:55:07 am

Two pigs sitting for mints
Verdifish the circus trainer!