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AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 12:31 pm Post subject:
Hello there

crofter

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 2252

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Newcomers...

nicelife wrote:

Maybe a good moment to start with a question...
We'd be interested to learn what weight of feed pr pig (nuts or otherwise)

Be careful in there...

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Authorities in the US are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his pet pigs.

Terry Vance Garner, 70, set out to feed his animals on his farm near the Oregon coast last week, but he was never seen again.

A family member later found Mr Garner�s dentures and parts of his body in the pig enclosure on his farm, but most of his remains had been consumed by the animals,

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 1:18 pm Post subject:
Hi Pete, welcome in to DS

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9917
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 1:55 pm Post subject:
welcome I agree with Nick re pig feed: a pound a day per month up to a max of 4 lbs a day - so at 2 months they were getting 2 lbs of feed a day each, at three months 3 lbs of feed per day each. They go to slaughter around the 6 - 8 months mark - when they are the right size really.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 2:06 pm Post subject:
Welcome! (Ask MJ about the apostrophe key on her blackberry if you really want to get your own back )

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 12 8:31 pm Post subject:
Hello from Devon We're just the other side of Holsworthy

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