[docsal]

I hope this doesn't seem too silly a question but I wondered how smelly pigs can be? We have just submitted planning permission for our new house and have someone coming this week to make a start on fencing the fields - pig field, sheep field and orchard. My plan is to have the pigs at the back of the house. The top corner of their field will be about 30m from the back corner of the house. Their field is large and the top area is dry. The bottom of their field is wetter, next to a burn and will be at least100m away. The field will be split lengthways so they can be moved to a fresh area if things get too messy.
Any advice would be most welcome.
Sally

[Marches Farmer]

You may wish to consider arranging the ground so that the same ark can have access to two different areas, each with a concrete platform for feeding and a permanent water supply (we use Suevia drinkers).  Also worth putting in a drinker that can be filled by a hand-carried bucket when the pipes freeze - we use bolted-on metal bowl drinkers, minus their float mechanism.  Site them and the concrete pad for feeding where you can reach them from outside the run.  Water pipes will need to be metal or feed in from something the pigs can't chew. Pigs will usually dung away from their sleeping quarters, but this can change due to very bad weather.  We have all-concrete pens and muck out daily.  The muck goes onto the general farm muckheap which is on a concrete base.  There's no smell that we're aware of until it's spread and this disappears within a couple of days, faster if it rains.

[Bionic]

I poo pick every day to keep the smell down and to make things more pleasant for us all.
How many pigs are you thinking of? More pigs = more poo = more smell

[greenbeast]

I echo much of marches' comment regarding pen/facitilies design.
The only smell here is general pigginess or boar smell depending on the wind and where you are on the farm, downwind of our grower pens can be quite sweet, i don't mind it at all.
Near the farm gate is usually downwind of our boar/dry sow pen and he can be detected from 20-30m

[docsal]

Really helpful - thanks all!