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Jim Bob

  • Joined Mar 2018
Pig smell
« on: January 11, 2019, 05:24:21 pm »
Been advised to open a new thread  on this. May be of interest to anyone thinking of getting pigs for slaughter. I will be getting a couple if weaners  next month to be put into a pen of approx 20m x 10m. This pen will be about 20m  from the back of my house. Everything set up and ready to go  when someone told me that there will be a bad smell around my house as the pen is so close. My plan is to bring the pigs to slaughter in the summertime but this claim about potential smell has got to me. Anyone any experience of keeping a couple of pigs so close to their back yard and can reassure me that the smell won’t be too bad????? Or indeed confirm what I have been told. How bad and how far would their smell reach????? Thanks in advance.

abc123

  • Joined Oct 2018
Re: Pig smell
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2019, 08:27:00 pm »
Thats just a myth. Keep them clean and u wont smell a thing. They are actually one of the cleanest animals, just need cleaning out properly.

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: Pig smell
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2019, 08:37:01 pm »
Thats just a myth. Keep them clean and u wont smell a thing. They are actually one of the cleanest animals, just need cleaning out properly.

Keep on top of the mucking out as ABC123 says . Make sure they have clean bedding and a dunging area that is kept clean, after all its only a couple .
You will smell them just as any other animal has its own odour but it wont be bad

Pigs India

  • Joined Aug 2016
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Re: Pig smell
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2019, 04:26:17 pm »
Well it does not smell if you regularly keep the place clean on a daily basis.

I have seen that use of IMO or EM solution during cleaning of shed floor removes the smell totally and is even good for the pigs health.
Another method is the Bokashi method which is used and has excellent results as far as fowl odour is concerned. Read about them and you will believe the concept and the method.

greenbeast

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Pig smell
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2019, 07:43:52 pm »
You may find, if the pen is big enough that they will do their business all over and walk it in.
I have micro pigs that will do bit of both in pens of 7x14m here, but the 'maxi' pigs are all in pens over 25m on a side and do not have a 'latrine'

docsal

  • Joined Feb 2017
Re: Pig smell
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2019, 02:39:32 pm »
Our pigs are about that distance and there is no smell as such, although our paddock is much bigger. We section off their sleeping accommodation so they only just fit in - that way they don't soil their bed area and only toilet outside. I like having them close to the house as it enables us to have plenty contact with them!

 

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