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Author Topic: Pigs and trailers.  (Read 4778 times)

shep53

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Dumfries & Galloway
Re: Pigs and trailers.
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2017, 06:42:50 pm »
Tamworths were always very easy to get into trailer with nuts , but the GOS  no chance, made a pen at the foot of the ramp with hurdles to hold them in place then backed them in one at a time with a bucket , then  the same at the abattoir  as they refused to come out .    Always put them in the trailer the day before , then plenty of straw ,food and water to settle  and no food overnight or next morning only water

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Pigs and trailers.
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2017, 09:05:19 am »
We've made a pig board which exactly fits the width of the ramp between the trailer gates.  With a hefty chap on each end it's generally possible to nudge a pig with its head down following a trail of apples up the ramp into the body of the trailer without too much trouble.

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Pigs and trailers.
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2017, 05:20:37 pm »
Interesting ! i have had Kune-Kune pigs for a few years now and never had a problem getting them in the trailer. They walk right up for a banana. i do use plenty of straw and have always made sure the trailer ramp is on the level ground.

 

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