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What Keeps Me Out of the Workshop
Pete.:
Great, so now when i tell my daughter her room looks like a pig sty she's going to take it as a compliment :)
awemawson:
Well another weekend has come and gone which brought Brian the Brickie here for a day and a half with some commensurate progress. That's 1500 bricks bumped out, and my body is telling me the details of every one :bugeye:
Pete.:
That's a posh piggy palace!
How do the pigs like the concrete? Don't they miss being able to root about in mud and generally turn the ground to mush?
awemawson:
We used to raise pigs on earth on that very spot before we built the first sty and yard, but it became totally untenable over winter.
Not only was it so soft they could easily circumvent the fencing as they worked it loose, also keeping the sleeping quarters viable was impossible - we are on a very soft bit of low lying ground. I do also have two earth pig runs elsewhere but we rarely use them now as the pigs don't seem to have an issue not wallowing. They get the occasional turf to keep the mineral input up, and a hose spray in hot weather.
If you consider that virtually every cottagers sty was either cobbled or concrete it's not a new thing.
Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,
I hope that you and yours are all well.
The new pig palace is looking good.
What's the latest lambing score?
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