[piltdown man]

I have four (3 male 1 female) weaners DOB 1Feb 2012 Black/GOSxSandy & Black £40each

Due to bad weather and our pig pens needing to be vacated for a while I'm having to sell some of my growers, as follows

Born October 2011  all need a further few months growing, BlackxGOS (1 male 4 females) £65 each

Please pm or e-mail me

[Fowgill Farm]

Born October 2011  all need a further few months growing, BlackxGOS (1 male 4 females) £65 each

Please pm or e-mail me

Too far away to take but these growers born in October should be more than ready to go to slaughter they're coming up 7 months old!!!
Mandy 

[piltdown man]

Totally agree but they haven't grown though are well fed and been wormed. The condition of the pens are a worry and i wonder if they are using their resources up in this bad weather, hence why I'm looking to move them on. Trying to do the best for them. I will be making new pens as soon as the weather gets better but I'm even losing my tractor in the fields at the moment so building anything is next to impossible.

[Fowgill Farm]

Know the feeling well about mud and rain!
We rake out old bedding to make a lake of straw in front of pig houses and then replenish house with new straw and finds this helps a lot, we're lucky we can bring ours into the yard.
Hope you get some buyers, might be worth posting in market place too!
All the best Mandy 

[piltdown man]

Know the feeling well about mud and rain!
We rake out old bedding to make a lake of straw in front of pig houses and then replenish house with new straw and finds this helps a lot, we're lucky we can bring ours into the yard.
Hope you get some buyers, might be worth posting in market place too!
All the best Mandy 

Thanks as a newbie I hadn't even noticed the market place!!!

With the pens we set out six new pens last year, each one 30m x40m hoping that being large they will survive the vagaries of the weather, as with many others we thought the better weather was with us. Now we have 6 pens, 18inches of slop and can hardly able to get in them to re-bed the shelters. We built two new pens last week and moved the weaners and their mother into them. Three days later and the're as bad as the others.

As I've said more interested in the welfare of the pigs at the moment than our own (making money).

I'm in the process of putting in planning for a piggery so we don't encounter these horrible conditions again.