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Flamin'Panda

Joined: 09 Feb 2014
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Location: Azores

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 8:44 am Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

Flamin'Panda wrote:

I think that if you put yourself (and pigs) up in the public arena, you must be prepared for what is thrown at you, and deal with it in a calm, considered and rational manner. Simply ranting on about someone else, who to my mind does have a point, can come across as unintelligent ramblings... If you want to get back at some one, or put your point of view across, use points of reference and facts. When my children had temper tantrums they were told off.

As far as I'm concerned. I have. You wouldn't by any chance have an axe to grind after having your rubbish removed from my last post would you?

Don't use an axe, I've got a chainsaw instead... and you really should calm down, you'll give yourself a heart attack.

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 8:50 am Post subject:

Thanks Alison.
The people who bought the jointed pigs from me over the weekend are more than interested in having some sausage from us. Its just the sheer quantity involved that I'm finding rather daunting.
We'll have to see what happens. Pru repeated the first time before her last litter, so the sausage orders are still some way from being taken yet.

The last mating took place on Valentines Day. I noticed a slight discharge about a week or so ago and I'm fairly sure that its stopped over the last couple of days.

alison
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 8:55 am Post subject:
Was it a clear or coloured discharge?

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 8:57 am Post subject:
Clear and most definitely not smelly.

alison
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 9:52 am Post subject:
https://www.nadis.org.uk/bulletins/vulval-discharges.aspx

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:07 am Post subject:
That's a useful and helpful link. I've saved it as a favourite. Pru has had the best of everything. Good food, good bedding, a long and expensive course of antibiotics when she farrowed last September and above all, a happy life. All is not yet lost, I've done my best by her and now I'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Flamin'Panda

Joined: 09 Feb 2014
Posts: 464
Location: Azores

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:09 am Post subject: Re: Contingency Plan.

Bodger wrote:

Now here's a bit of history for you. We've been to the Saint Fagans museum on a few occasions and they have this cockpit there and it once stood in Denbigh. The museum removed it brick by brick and reconstructed it on the museum site.

Without being jumped on, so no Panda bashing, I was wondering why this was interesting, or am I missing something here?

alison
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:23 am Post subject:
I would have thought interesting, and beautiful, and also was totally connected to the slaughterhouse mentioned in the original post. Why don't you think it is?

Flamin'Panda

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Location: Azores

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:32 am Post subject:
Ok, thanks for that... just got a bit confused there for a moment... I do wonder at times though about the cost of doing such things, when, to my mind, money could be better spent else where.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:38 am Post subject:
Beautiful and interesting, but a disturbing reflection on an unsavoury, cruel practise which is still illegally carried out in the UK to this day by unscrupulous people with no morals or sensitivity. A bit like the slavery relics....We need to know, I suppose , just so we remember. Cock fighting, dog fighting, bare knuckle fighting, and badger baiting still go on in 2014 Britain.

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:42 am Post subject:
You need to take the time to visit St Fagans. Its Wales's National History Museum and it truly is a fantastic place. Amongst many other things, they also keep pigs. You do have an interest in pigs? Have a look at this. https://www.visitcardiff.com/things-to-do/st-fagans-national-history-museum-p9971 Last edited by Bodger on Sun Mar 02, 14 10:46 am; edited 1 time in total

Flamin'Panda

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Location: Azores

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:45 am Post subject:

Lloyd wrote:

Beautiful and interesting, but a disturbing reflection on an unsavoury, cruel practise which is still illegally carried out in the UK to this day by unscrupulous people with no morals or sensitivity. A bit like the slavery relics....We need to know, I suppose , just so we remember.

Cock fighting, dog fighting, bare knuckle fighting, and badger baiting still go on in 2014 Britain.

I am quite happy for a couple of numbskulls to beat the hell out of each other... cockfighting, dog fighting etc... is, IMO, about as low as anyone can go. I would be in favour of very long prison sentences, and public knowledge of perpetrators, name and shame. But to back to the building, it is interesting, but still, IMO, a waste of money to move it brick by brick.....

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:47 am Post subject:
They had to, it wouldn't come in one piece, now lets get back to pigs eh?

Bodger

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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 10:54 am Post subject:

Pig Trek. The Next Generation.

Yesterday morning, we moved Pru's two daughters from their muddy outdoor pen up into the pig sty. Up until Tuesday, the sty was the home of their brothers who are now living in the freezer.
We're going to keep the girls in the sty for the next couple of months until the weather bucks up and the ground dries out a bit. Then they'll be off outside again into nice big grassy runs behind electric wire.

I'm hoping that these two will go on to become our next generation of breeding sows. They're looking a bit greasy in these pictures because I'd just put some pig oil on them.

Its a bit of a pig when a ladies a**e looks better than her face.

"I think I might like our new house"

The main thing, is that they've already started to crap in just the right place. In one of the corners out in the open forecourt and not in their bedroom. I'm a man of simple pleasures, it doesn't take a lot to please me you know. Now if I could just get them to do it directly into the wheelbarrow, then I would be cooking with gas.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 14 7:40 pm Post subject:
Out of curiosity, how old is Pru, and what is her weight?

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