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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Penninehillbilly on July 14, 2017, 08:29:09 pm

Title: Micropigs
Post by: Penninehillbilly on July 14, 2017, 08:29:09 pm
I know there are some robust opinions on these.
Programme currently on yorkshire ITV, about pets. A lot on a woman who bought micro piglets and ended up with 20+ stone pigs. I think she's trying again. (Looking  at her husbands expression she's very trying   :D)
Repeated on ch33  9pm
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: greenbeast on July 15, 2017, 07:10:13 pm
I know there are some robust opinions on these.
Programme currently on yorkshire ITV, about pets. A lot on a woman who bought micro piglets and ended up with 20+ stone pigs. I think she's trying again. (Looking  at her husbands expression she's very trying   :D)
Repeated on ch33  9pm

Unfortunate, and the line we always get when we say we breed micropigs. Anyone coming to look at piglets here can see 4 generations for size comparisons. 
It would be the same as someone not researching a puppy's lines when looking for a new pet and breeder
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: Marches Farmer on July 16, 2017, 05:47:30 pm
Most people have no clue as to how big a mature pig can be.
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: greenbeast on July 16, 2017, 08:23:03 pm
true, some people visit and say 'they're massive', then we point them to our adult OSB boar....

often these people don't follow through anyway, thankfully.
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: Steph Hen on July 16, 2017, 08:32:35 pm
How big do yours get greenbeast?
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: greenbeast on July 16, 2017, 08:48:08 pm
The most common comparison would be staffie sized, maybe a shade bigger, but obviously they are built differently  ;D

Have a search for 'louie the little pig' on facebook (if you use fb), he didn't come directly from us but we have his auntie and sister here who are two of our breeding sows.
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: harmony on July 17, 2017, 11:39:08 am
So, how does going for walks work? I took a look at Louie's fb page and clearly he goes out for regular walks ( I know you can get a pig walking licence) but he obviously doesn't respect a standstill when he has been out.


Recently, there was an article in a local paper about a goat who enjoyed a boat trip on Windermere. How does that work?







Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: landroverroy on July 17, 2017, 01:47:10 pm
Presumably you don't inform defra beforehand - just do it!
Title: Re: Micropigs
Post by: greenbeast on July 17, 2017, 08:55:22 pm
You have to apply for agreed routes, it's really easy in towns because there's no farms. Impossible out here in the country