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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Bodger on January 03, 2014, 07:45:28 pm

Title: Pig Ark.
Post by: Bodger on January 03, 2014, 07:45:28 pm

I saw this last week and had it delivered on a lorry this morning. Karen thinks that it should be a bit shinier for the money that I paid but I reckon I got a real bargain. If you think that if your daft enough, you can pay three or four hundred quid for a small chicken shed that only fits four or five birds, then 200 quid delivered wasn't at all out of the way. its basically very sound and extremely substantial.
. I don't think that I'll bother but I suppose that a lick of paint would really smarten it up.



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Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Louise Gaunt on January 03, 2014, 07:52:33 pm

It looks very fine and heavy enough to withstand current weather conditions!

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Bodger on January 03, 2014, 08:01:39 pm

The webbing on the top is so that it can be picked up with a tractor and moved. :pig:

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Bodger on January 05, 2014, 05:30:42 pm

I'm the one in green by the way.  :innocent:




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We moved Pru to her new house this morning.




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She soon settled in and tomorrow, I'm picking her suitor up.




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I feel much happier now that Pru has her own place with plenty of fresh air and grass. I'm sure that she is too.

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: kelly58 on January 05, 2014, 05:47:49 pm

Very happy piggie  :thumbsup:  :love: Great Ark

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Bodger on January 06, 2014, 06:56:17 pm

Pru's husband Patrick has been playing the field in Whitchurch for the last six months but today I picked him up and brought him home to make an honest woman of her. We landed back at around 4.00pm just in time for bed. Pru was less than impressed.




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Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Eastling on January 07, 2014, 08:07:27 am

Lovely pics, looks like Pru is standing on the door step with a rolling pin waiting for him to get back from the pub.
Looks like a nice piece of land for them too.

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: hughesy on January 07, 2014, 08:24:22 am

He's a good big lad that Patrick. I'm sure it'll be job done in no time at all.

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Tamsaddle on January 07, 2014, 09:09:43 am

I am green with envy over your unflooded fields and luscious thick grass - it looks like you live in paradise!

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Bodger on January 07, 2014, 09:27:28 am

That lush grass is where the horses pooped and wee'd all through the summer. Horses wont eat the grass where they spend a penny, so hopefully the pigs will freshen things up before I get it ploughed and reseeded. :fc:

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Fowlman on January 07, 2014, 01:21:34 pm

Bargain there Bodger  :thumbsup:  and pigs look good too.

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: sabrina on January 07, 2014, 01:43:29 pm

Sow looks well pleased with her new home, not quite impressed  with the lodger though.

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Clansman on January 08, 2014, 10:40:27 am

That looks excellent!

Bodger, what amount of feed does a pig that size eat per day?

Title: Re: Pig Ark.
Post by: Q on January 08, 2014, 10:48:41 am

I agree thats a fine looking animal.

Am I the only one who mentally sees dotted lines where it will be jointed?   :roflanim: