Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Smallhold Farming and Rural Living => Livestock and Growing on a larger scale => Topic started by: Judd on August 08, 2012, 21:20
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I've just ordered 2 Gloucester old spots and should collect them some time over the weekend.....I can't wait :D
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You will love them and they are a most delicious pig indeed. :)
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Can't wait to get my teeth into them :tongue2:
With cheese? :lol:
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Can't wait to get my teeth into them :tongue2:
With cheese? :lol:
Of course. :closedeyes:
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Got the Old spots last night ,BRILLIANT I'm really chuffed :D,one of them is a really big boy for his age!
I'll try to put a couple of pics on shortly.
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Excellent (glad to see you know the 'rules' re piccies ;) ) :D
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Here's a few pics :D
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Another couple. Hope you're not getting bored.They look like they're smiling on the second pic :happy:
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Here's a few pics :D
The one on the left in the second picture only has one leg and has fell over :wacko:
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Hope you're not getting bored.
Certainly not! Lovely pics, thanks. :D
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They look like very happy little piggies :) and we never get bored of photos ;)
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Lovely :D
Haven't they got big ears for their size!
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Great pics,
3 GOS going in here hopefully in about 2 months.
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I hope that's the "before" piccie :lol:
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well sort of halfway picture, more cleared round the back, still got alot to do >:(
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That's the pigs gone :(just had pork chops for my dinner :happy: and they were excellent :D
1 weighed in at 105 lds and the other a whopping 162!
It was a great experience keeping them ,I really enjoyed it.Very satisfying and no problem at all.
I'd recommend it to anyone with enough space to keep them.
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looking at your sig - I'm glad you didn't burn the chops, and the weight of the piggies - they certainly didn't fade away either :lol:
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:lol: :lol:
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I love the sound of that! Cute little piglets to feed up then some tasty pork that should last a while in the freezer. Shame the OH would want to keep them as pets but maybe she'd lose the attachement once they were fully grown. Or some diversion tactics could work hehe.
Did you buy them from a farmers market then pay someone to dispatch and butcher them for you?
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Hi Daamoot,
I bought them at 10 weeks old and raised them on my allotment,took them to a local abbatioir at 23 weeks.
A brilliant experience and well worth the effort,by the time they get to 23 weeks they are getting pretty boisterous so maybe your other half might start to lose any attachment!
I'm trying some Large Blacks next I think.