New Forest Pigs and Piglets as neighbours
- a life of swine!
New Forest pigs and New Forest piglets
I am lucky enough to live very close to New Forest
pigs and piglets in the New Forest National Park.
If you visit around October you should be lucky enough to spot
pigs in the open New Forest. They will have been sent out
on the Commoners Right of Mast.
If you want to see pigs out on the New Forest National Park there are usually a couple in the woods near Fritham.
You can have a lovely lunch in the Royal Oak, Fritham. SO43 7HJ for your Sat Nav.
Email address is: royaloak-fritham@btconnect.com
before you go for a walk and look for some pigs!
An added bonus for horse riders arriving for a bowl of warm soup - or more - on a cold winters day is that you can leave your horse in their paddock while you sup up - a very sensible New Forest custom.
What a wonderful place to live - surrounded by
New Forest deer, donkeys, cows and pigs!
They eat the green acorns before the ponies can get to them,
and so prevent the ponies getting the extremely painful,
and potentially lethal condition called "colic".
The pigs and piglets will snuffle up as many as they can, and
believe me, a full grown pig is a bit like a suction machine
- everything goes!
We have a couple of pigs who pass by each day.
We have called them Grandma and Mama - very soppy and sentimental
but who cares?
The black and pink pig "Grandma" really is lovely - yes pigs
can be described as lovely. She will communicate through a
series of meaningful grunts and likes to have her ears
tickled.
She is very clean, contrary to myth that pigs are
dirty animals, and only occasionally gives off a heady aroma
of warm pig!
When she had her first brood of piglets she had 8. Six survived and we had hours of fun as they grew up around us.
They would greet us and play with our trainer laces.
One day my son was tickling a piglets belly and, like a puppy
he put his little trotter in the air for a bigger tickle.....
unfortunately he was on a slope and slipped down the hill!
Pigs do get run over on the New Forest roads. Like all animal accidents they are very upsetting!
If the pigs are out there are piglets about too - so this is doubly bad news for a forest animal.
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I hope you have luck seeing some New Forest pigs and piglets if you decide to have a well earned holiday break or weekend away in
the beautiful New Forest National Park.
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