Thanks for the encouragement guys. A week on and they are settling in lovely. Rather then doing a runner from us they now charge over at full speed and follow me around squawking and grunting whilst i check the fence. The electric fence seems to be working well, they don't seem to go within a foot or so of it.
I do have a question regarding fruit and veg though if anyone would be kind enough to offer there thoughts?
We picked them up at 7 weeks, so they have just turned 8 weeks. Now i gleaned from prior questions that fruit and veg should be fed in a 4:1 ration to a max of 50% of there ration of dry although for the moment we are only planning on using 25% of there ration, so based on a pound of food peer month of there life (1lb x 2 months x 4 pigs = 8lb) at present we are feeding 3lb of weaner pellets, 3lb of rolled barley (they were weaned on barley so we bought a bag to start them off on but intend on cutting it out when the bag has gone) and for the remaining 2lb we are giving 8lb of mixed fruit and veg. As i mentioned in a previous thread i have a source of free fruit and veg and both weeks i have been in i have picked up a lovely mix of everything you would find in a green grocer-about 10 cases so far more then we need for the minute.
The piglets always eat there dry ration first then seem to wolf down any fruit and softer veg-tomatoes, apples, pumpkins, avocado's, peppers, squashes, bananas etc... but tend to leave the harder stuff like swedes and carrots. could that be because they are still small, not far from being weaned and still developing or are they just being fussy buggers? We also feed half and half, so half of each ration in the morning and half in the afternoon so perhaps that has a bearing?
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