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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2012, 11:04:59 am »
I know we all like our piggies to have free range - but with younger pigs, especially if the mud is wet and cold, I think they are better off indoors on straw when it's like this.

If they are outdoors, as well as straw for them to walk on, I have to keep topping up the straw in the ark as it gets wet and cold from all the wet cold glopp they bring in on their bodies...  ::)
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Berkshire Boy

  • Joined May 2011
    • Presteigne, Powys
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2012, 12:49:58 pm »
Agree Sally, all my weaners are in the stables, horses out in the rain. The adult pigs I'm afraid are having to put up with the glorious summer weather. ;D
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Polished Arrow

  • Joined Mar 2012
    • Forest of Dean
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Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2012, 04:33:04 pm »
Our barn has the goats in it at the moment...  Pigs are in farrowing arks, which are in turn in what were nice, green, gently sloping and therefore well drained pens.  Were being the operative word.   :(   I dream of having concrete front door steps for them.  Would we have to get planning permission for a hardstanding of, say, 6' x 8' outside the front of each ark do you reckon?

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sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
    • S W northumberland
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2012, 06:37:55 pm »
My weaners have a stable full of straw  with access to a field through a hatch  , they hardly ever go out though
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Graham

ppd

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Sutherland
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2012, 06:44:09 pm »
It must just a highland thing, but although we have had some rain, we are actually quite dry (fishers complaining about lack of water in rivers) but I am happy. My two weaners have not done as much damage to the ground as I had hoped - for my polytunnel next year - maybe I could offer luxury piggie holidays to churn up a bit of my ground  ;D
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happy larry

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2012, 09:44:49 pm »
Well im gonna bite the bullet and put most of my pigs in loose boxes,it really bugs me to see them wading through slop.BUT i need to muck the boxes out 1st as my mate had been keeping calves in them,its only a foot deep :'(   
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2012, 10:07:14 pm »
Quote from: happy larry on July 04, 2012, 09:44:49 pm
Well im gonna bite the bullet and put most of my pigs in loose boxes,it really bugs me to see them wading through slop.BUT i need to muck the boxes out 1st as my mate had been keeping calves in them,its only a foot deep :'(   
Some folks would use pigs to muck that calf muck out...
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P6te

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • South Derbyshire
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2012, 07:24:21 am »
When the rain does eventually subside, how long do you give it till we get a hose pipe ban!!  ::)
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happy larry

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2012, 11:04:48 pm »
Quote from: SallyintNorth on July 04, 2012, 10:07:14 pm
Quote from: happy larry on July 04, 2012, 09:44:49 pm
Well im gonna bite the bullet and put most of my pigs in loose boxes,it really bugs me to see them wading through slop.BUT i need to muck the boxes out 1st as my mate had been keeping calves in them,its only a foot deep :'(   
Some folks would use pigs to muck that calf muck out...


If he was on the ball with worming etc then i would,but im taking no chances.Finnished 1 box off today and filled a 750 muck spreader TWICE turned out to be 18" deep but worst of all he had used hay for bedding on the last layer ooh my back and tennis elbow.Start the next loose box in the morning.
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princesspiggy

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Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2012, 11:10:40 pm »
who else keeps there pigs in woods? i find it doesnt get much mud at all, whereas the wee paddock is a nightmare sometimes.
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eastleicspig

  • Joined Jul 2012
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2012, 07:36:27 am »
Quote from: princesspiggy on July 05, 2012, 11:10:40 pm
who else keeps there pigs in woods? i find it doesnt get much mud at all, whereas the wee paddock is a nightmare sometimes.

Ours are in woods sectioned into fenced pens, and you are right the only gloopy place is where there is a break in the canopy
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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2012, 09:21:53 am »
Overnight we have has so much rain, pig paddocks are just one mass of muddy slurry, concerned gilrs will get leg injuries as its so deep and sticky in places that i've made the descision to bring them back into winter buildings for the 2nd time this so called summer >:( ::)
Had to unblock drains this morning as bunged up with floating chuds & straw, lovely NOT, good job hadn't had my brekkie!
How long can this weather go on, i wonder if the paddocks will ever recover. Clay rain & pigs just don't work without some dry weather in the year!
Carol on the telly this am says we're going to get a months worth of rain in 12hrs, its thundering like hell and already underway here. Look out for floating pig houses and pigs!!
Mandy :pig:
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P6te

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • South Derbyshire
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #27 on: July 06, 2012, 09:28:33 am »
Its getting beyond a joke ... I'm in the process of building 'winter' accommodation but in the meantime the pigs are suck in the mud!!

Just trying to do the ground work in these conditions is extra hard work.

On a lighter note this was sent to me yesterday and is most appropriate ...

Flanders and Swann - A song of the weather

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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2012, 09:33:28 am »
That sounds just about right Pete  ;D
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kitchen cottage

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Re: Mud mud mud how do you cope?
« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2012, 03:53:53 pm »
I am in Essex clay, I bought the piglets in at 4 weeks because it was so bad I thought they would strain their joints.... their paddocks, which should have been rock hard is now 50% over water..... The sheep seem okay but it can't be fun.
 
Frankly, I want better weather for them to get on..... poor things its horrible out there for them.
 
I have 2 tams in my foaling stable (so they are easy to load for slaughter on Thursday) but I don't think I can put 8 11 week olds back in there!
 
I DEMAND SUN!!! Oh and we are on a hosepipe ban in Essex still!!! fecking ridiculous!!!
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