[r+lchick]

If I want some meat for the table, what is easier to keep with regards consumption of time and being able to leave them to get themselves in in the evening - weaners or lambs?  I am thinking that pigs may be less time consuming.  You feed them in the morning, make sure that they have water and if you like you could have a day out and come back late evening.  Check to see if they are OK and that is it.  If it is lambs, you would have to give them a bottle and put them in at night.  Have I got this right or am I talking out of my you know whatsit?
Will post this on the sheep site as well.  Ros 

[Hilarysmum]

Personally pigs every time, although again personally would tend to feed twice a day.  That way you can be sure they will be back from wherever they have been all day when you get home.

[chickenfeed]

  as with all livestock so long as you are prepared to put the work in you will get a quality end produce, but as a first step i would keep pigs but feed twice a day.

[Sylvia]

If you buy weaned lambs (more expensive but will fatten on grass) you will only need to check them once a day but pigs will need feeding at least twice a day. They will need water containers constantly topped up where lambs drink very little. Lambs will not burrow a way out as long as you have decent fences/ hedges and will not root up your land to the point where you have to get it ploughed and re-seeded!!
Having said that, I like pork more than lamb and you get more meat per animal!