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4 foot? i better replace all my 3 foot then before they grow

they will be pets yes , and ofcourse pictures , i will definatly put them on here when they come

thankyou

We will shortly be taking delivery of 5 x baby rheas and regarding fencing all we can seem to find out is that sheep fencing is adiquate to contain them in the 2 acre feild they will be in , however not really being into sheep i have no idea how high sheep fancing is? could someone please tell me ho...

hi all, came up with a small problem i have never had before, just turned over a large plot of land the soil is not too good, clay and gritty otherwise fine lol i have winter dug it and gave it a good dressing of rotted horse muck BUT i have just been given a large amount of fresh horse muck !!! wha...

im sorry to all the cornish people out there

muscroj, sheffeild isnt really that far to come for a free range pigs head, im sure i can spare some ribs aswell for you

might not be offal but its rubbishy meat?

im afraid not, i cant even bring myself to eat a cornish pasty

id be sick if i saw a faggot on my plate

2 have gone, just 1 head left, any takers?

im unsure where to put this so feel fre to move mods i have sent my 3 pigs off to slaughter and they are coming back thursday, i do not want the heads or offle from these 3 pigs, so they are up for grabs, i just cant bear to think im eating their heads, but there will be some very good dinners on th...

hi about 8 weeks ago we took delivery of our 3 pigs ( growing for the freezer) , they were wormed that day we collected them , but when we cleaned them out yesterday and put all the mess into the barrow to take upto the garden , when we emptied the barrow the next day we noticed thousands of little ...

another question as we are new to pigs LOL....

pig manure... is it good for the garden? can i put it on like horse manure and dig it in autum/winter?

many thanks red, its our 1st year too, we just got 3 british lops , the breeder definatly knew what they was on about as they sold meat from their premises, half pigs... the lot... they were both vets , but never once mentioned anything about castrating the males , which we have 3 of , it was only w...

last week we brought 3 male pigs home to feed up for the freezer, this week we had a friend and his friend come to visit to "have a look" , and the 2nd friend said all male pigs should be castrated , is this true? does it make much differance? they are 9 weeks old now, any advice appreciat...

thanks for all your help and comments, ir does have sort of reddybrown stems, and a few pods left from lasst year?

we are quite near a brook too

i thought hazelnuts were low shrubs/bushes ? this is a great tree ?