Author Topic: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals  (Read 7738 times)

Basil

  • Joined Dec 2014
Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« on: June 01, 2015, 10:29:41 pm »
Okay if your on hear a little bit you would have seen my threads for a Large White bore and my lovely Large Black Sow. These pigs are my last two that I could not make into sausages as they are my pals. I will lose the ground that they live on in the middle of this month and it will break my heart, but if I cant find them a good home I will have to put them down!!
Can someone out their give them a good home?
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Thank you

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2015, 12:21:09 am »
Where are you? - it may help find someone to take your pigs if you put where you are.
I have got attached to my 4 Kune Kune pigs, but as I am leaving that land, and dare not risk them churning up the other land I have, due to a fussy landlord, they will have to go. Only interest is from people who just want one pig, or others who want to eat them.
Good luck with yours.

Basil

  • Joined Dec 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 09:03:20 am »
Sorry, based in the Scottish Borders 3 miles east of Dunbar.
Thanks you

adamhfc

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 09:51:11 am »
What about the farm park in Dunbar or near there

Basil

  • Joined Dec 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 10:16:19 am »
Thanks I was intouch with them yesterday
Thank you

debbigord

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • East Sussex
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2015, 08:52:30 pm »
Can't help I'm afraid as we are so far away from you, but I am so sorry and I really hope that things work out well for you and your pals. I also admire you for trying so hard to find them a new home. Fingers crossed for you.

Basil

  • Joined Dec 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2015, 09:36:30 pm »
Thank you and I will find a good home for them if it kills me. I could do the deed but I actually care for these two, but the land owner is not so helpful!! So we will see what happens. If it was two little weaners the email would be flooding in but two very large pigs nobody wants. I suppose its the same at the dog pound, that what nobody wants will not be heard from in the morning. Maybe I should be asking if anyone on hear has land to rent near cockburnspaths Scottish borders?
What can you do?
« Last Edit: June 02, 2015, 09:38:01 pm by Basil »

CharingPorkPantry

  • Joined Nov 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2015, 10:24:41 am »
Hi Basil,

Just wanted to say that if I were not at the complete opposite end of the country (Kent, England) I would take your pigs happily. I realise that's not helpful but there must be someone else who feels like me somewhere closer to you. Hang in there!  :fc:

Rebecca  :pig:

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2015, 01:04:49 pm »
Surely someone can rent you a plot of land for your pigs?  It does sound as though you are very fond of them, and at least you could keep them with you.  Fingers crossed something turns up for you.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2015, 02:59:07 pm »
I hope you find someone suitable to take your pigs, or find some land you can rent so you can keep them.   :hug:

But... if you were to end up handing them over to someone you don't know (either in person or through a site like this one), frankly you don't know where they'll end up.  So, very hard though it is, you may in the end be serving them better by sending them to the abattoir yourself than passing them on to someone who may do just that anyway, and/or may fail to look after them well.  I say this not to upset you, but to help you feel better about the decision you take if it does end up that way.  :hug:

I do know how you feel, I really do.  In my case I prefer to be sure that no harm or ill-treatment has become befallen them, so would sooner see them to the abattoir myself.

Meantime, good luck finding them good homes - I hope it works out for you   :-*
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Basil

  • Joined Dec 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2015, 04:24:22 pm »
Yes it is one of those, will someone look after them well? will they end as sausages? All I can do is hope that I have done my best for them.
On a good note someone has offered to take the pigs and will hopefully sort something out in the middle of next week. So fingers crossed it all goes to plan, but you never know. They have pigs at the moment and hopefully my two will feel at home fairly quickly.

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2015, 05:48:08 pm »
 :fc: :fc:
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2015, 07:27:28 pm »
 :fc:  :hug: :hug:

SophieLeeds

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Yorkshire
Re: Wanted Good Home For My Two Pals
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2015, 02:25:55 pm »
Hope you are okay Basil  :hug:

I'm sure Fennel and Basil are eating apples galore  :tree: :bouquet:
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops or livestock, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings"

 

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