[Bodger]

My wife and I have been on holiday this week on the island of Alderney, we fly back home tomorrow. We landed on a grass runway last Friday and straight away, we felt immediately at home. The island airport is surrounded by pigs, OSB's to be exact. The set up that the farmer is using is superb. Big wire netting enclosures with lots of grass, loads of comfortable arks and most importantly, the pigs are on sandy free draining soil.
Here are some pictures of the OSB pigs.
 There are rather a lot.













































and finally, here's one of the  famous Alderney black rabbist. The island is full of them.

[happygolucky]

Arhhhhhhhhhhhh love the little piglets with mum    The weather looks good anyway...shall have to look up where it is as I have no idea

[jaykay]

Those piglets are so cute! 

[Bodger]

Alderney is one of the Channel Islands, its the third largest in size after Jersey and Guernsey.

[gavin davies]

i could only dream of having land like that 

[happygolucky]

Alderney is one of the Channel Islands, its the third largest in size after Jersey and Guernsey

Thats why it looks so  bright and clear!! 

[Fowgill Farm]

Super pictures
how all piggies should be kept.
mandy

[Daisys Mum]

That looks like pig paradise to me 

[Bodger]

I'll be coming back with lots of ideas to put in place with ourown  pig keeping. Those OSB's looked to have a lot in common with the Gloucester Old Spots that we've started to keep again recently.

[Blinkers]

Cor.....all that GRASS - how lucky are they 

[Rosemary]

Looks lovely - I think I'd like the Channel Islands

[Bodger]

Today we met a really nice lady called Tanya. She's the only other keeper of pigs on the island of Alderney. Her pigs are Iron age with just smidging of Saddleback in them. Once again, they were kept in idyllic conditions.

[Berkshire Boy]

I would have said that they looked more likely to have Berkshire in them than Saddleback.

[Bodger]

You can't be right all the time. Actually we suggested  a bit of Berkshire being in them but its definately saddleback.

[Hassle]

that is a serious amount of posts