I have two gilts, GOS x Pietrain. They live outside and have plenty of space.
I have an issue where they are being extremely vocal - squealing and grunting - whenever they catch sight of someone. We assume this is because they are associating people with food and making noise to get food (correct me if I’m wrong).
What can I do to try and stop this? Currently we are trying ignoring them but they literally do not stop. It’s not just at their normal feed time but they are up and creating first thing before we go across to them as well.
Our neighbours have mentioned during conversation that they can hear them, but I don’t think it was a complaint; however, we are on one side of the valley and all neighbours on the other, which shows how the noise travels.
Any suggestions of how we can get them out of this demanding behaviour? They say pigs are clever but they haven’t figured out that they don’t get rewarded for kicking off. At this rate they’ll be off early and it’ll be chipolatas instead of sausages...