Author Topic: Free pigs (Read 8078 times)

rispainfarm · « **Reply #15 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:11:44 pm »

If they are micros, I will eat my hat. it looks as if they have osb in them maybe. Like one post suggested, she realises they are not going to be micro and is passing on the problem pronto. The only place they are suitable for is the freezer me thinks

princesspiggy · « **Reply #16 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:17:15 pm »

Quote from: Burrwoodfm on July 17, 2012, 12:32:10 pm

Most people have never actually stood next to a commercial fully grown pig of any breed to see how enormous they really are.

i did this week for the first time, all adult commercials and blimey they were big, tall and very wide. id say 4 times the size of my adult tammies. huge.

rispainfarm · « **Reply #17 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:27:33 pm »

I have had people come on our courses and decide against keeping pigs when they have stood close and personal to them, they have been scared

HappyHippy · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:43:29 pm »

I've lost count of the number of people who've looked really shocked and said "Oh, that's a big pig" when we show them the adult Kunekunes, it's then fun to walk them down to see the Large Blacks, now that is a big pig

I think there's a general misconception that pigs are knee high, little things - what most people think of as a pig, is actually a 6 month old porker going to slaughter rather than a fully grown sow or boar.

rispainfarm · « **Reply #19 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:54:04 pm »

ha ha karen, OSB are bigger, our boar was 7ft long

princesspiggy · « **Reply #20 on:** July 17, 2012, 05:34:01 pm »

these commercial pigs were like a shire to an arab - to even our dorothy, who is a big girl. noone wonder they finish them so young.

Gary · « **Reply #21 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:17:36 pm »

Haha I have a 4 year old large white boar he's as high as a 5 bar gate people are stunned when they see boris but not as stunned as they are when my 5 year old lad says he's my pig and pats him on the nose, their faces sure are a picture!!

rispainfarm · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:24:49 pm »

yes large whites are rather large aren't they. i have never been close and personal but you can tell from pictures
hence their name I suppose

Gary · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:37:04 pm »

Yes he is huge i bought him and his brother in as a couple of weaners to see which would be best for breeding, i've been extremely lucky with him he's never missed a service and i can handle him with ease he has a very good temperment, he has never produced litters less than ten at the moment we are growing one of his sons on for the future!