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New Forest Pigs and Piglets
- a life of swine!

New Forest pig - relaxing in the sun.

New Forest pig relaxing - they are stress-free! New Forest pigs and New Forest piglets

New Forest pigs

I am lucky enough to live very close to New Forest pigs and piglets in the New Forest National Park.

New Forest pig - Mama pig and piglets having a break.

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.

Look at my latest New Forest piglet video.

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!

New Forest pig - Pigs love mud - I hardly recognised her!



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!



New Forest pig - Mama - hoping for a treat!



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.

New Forest pig - Grandma  pig at our fence

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.





New Forest pig relaxing pig style - She can really relax!



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!



New Forest piglets - let sleeping pigs lie! This is the next generation

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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New Forest pig -  Pig style relaxing - Can this lady relax or what?



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