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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: horsemadmummy on March 16, 2011, 08:41:50 am

Title: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: horsemadmummy on March 16, 2011, 08:41:50 am

any recommendations for supplying good quality arks?  need one for sow who is due to farrow

Title: Re: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: JulieS on March 16, 2011, 08:52:08 am

I get mine from Animal Arks in Callington.  www.animalarks.co.uk (http://www.animalarks.co.uk)

You're welcome to come over and take a look at how they stand up to a bit of use........and how a couple that I didn't get from there haven't done so well!!  lol
 :love: :pig: :love:

Title: Re: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: loosey on March 16, 2011, 09:15:12 am

We build ours - total costs about £130 and last one took my OH and my dad just under 2 hours  :)

Title: Re: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: horsemadmummy on March 16, 2011, 09:37:04 am

my oh would be dangerous if i let him anywhere near tools!!!  he says he goes to work so that I can play at being a farmer!!!

Title: Re: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: skidley on March 16, 2011, 01:07:23 pm

My OH builds ours as he works on building sites and gets all the timber for free!!

New close farm do pig arks they are in frome somerset and deliver too

Title: Re: pig ark - okehampton, devon
Post by: Billy Rhomboid on March 16, 2011, 01:54:56 pm

I saw the New Close Farm ones last week and they looked excellent quality-wise and very good pricewise comapred to most I have seen on the net. I seem to think £180 for an 8x6, but don'y hold me to that.