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flowerpotkitchen

  • Joined Sep 2012
Pigs in our front garden !
« on: September 13, 2012, 07:05:11 pm »
What a fantastic website, thank you for all your information, we are due to take delivery of our very first weaner gilts in a few weeks, we have been looking for a few acres for a few years local to our home with no luck, so that is it we have had Ardingly Arks set up our pig ark and we are going to be urban mini mini smallholders in our front garden!!!  The ladies will be joining our brood of chickens and vegetable garden, soooo exciting.
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Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2012, 07:32:22 pm »
Sounds like a great plan - you must keep us updated  :thumbsup:
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2012, 07:34:46 pm »
Welcome to the forum :wave: . Enjoy your  :pig: :pig:
Sally
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luckylady

  • Joined Aug 2009
    • Yorkshire
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2012, 08:09:26 pm »
Looks like you'll have to evict the dogs before the pigs arrive!  ;D   Welcome to the forum.  Lots of piggy experts on here to guide you.  I'm not one of them though - I have sheep, horses, dogs and cats but I'm not allowed pigs  :( . 
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Mrs Snoodles

  • Joined Aug 2012
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2012, 09:06:33 pm »
We too struggled for land for some time.  Piggies in your front garden !! wowzers!!  You will get absolutely nothing done you realise :) They are even bigger time wasters than chickens  :love:  :love:  :love:   Have fun. Snorkels are fab.
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Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Somerset
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2012, 10:12:21 pm »
It is exciting, isn't it? :excited: :excited:


We have a pair of weaners for the first time this year and they are such a joy! :D
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Durham
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2012, 10:19:44 pm »
Just hoping the photo is not a piccie of the weeners you have been sold  ;D ( ripoff Britain and all that  8) )
If they are I'll take the middle and the left ones,  :love:

It is very  :excited:, don't forget the piccies for us when they arrive  :eyelashes:

I'm very jealous, our front garden couldn't house a guineapig it's that small  ::). Just post some piccies so I can ooh and aaaahhhhhh over your  new arrivals instead.
Have you forewarned your pups of their eviction?  :D
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2012, 10:36:31 pm »
 :wave:  welcome from sunny Shropshire.  I keep goats in my back garden so why not pigs in your front garden?
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The Woodsiders

  • Joined Aug 2011
    • Near Horley in Surrey
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2012, 10:52:54 pm »
Good luck and many thanks, welcome to the Forum
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rispainfarm

  • Joined Jul 2012
    • longniddry
    • The Porky Quines
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2012, 02:04:51 pm »
Nice ark.  Bidgiemire was the first ark company that designed the removable floor with d rings to hold the top onto the skids, as seen in this ardingly ark picture. Its nice to see our design idea taken and  working for other ark companies.
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lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2012, 02:46:46 pm »
Welcome from soggy Bathgate  :wave:
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ppd

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Sutherland
Re: Pigs in our front garden !
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2012, 03:16:24 pm »
Hello :wave:
Enjoy yor piggies ;D
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