Clarksons farm

I kept Oxfords for a while - I found them good mothers, usually rearing at least 8 per litter, which is good for a rare breed. I will be interested to see how they farmed them to get such poor rates of piglet deaths. Mine were free range with arcs without floors, but they usually built their own nests from rushes and bits of hedge. I cannot remember any sat on ones...
 
Old Boar said:
I kept Oxfords for a while - I found them good mothers, usually rearing at least 8 per litter, which is good for a rare breed. I will be interested to see how they farmed them to get such poor rates of piglet deaths. Mine were free range with arcs without floors, but they usually built their own nests from rushes and bits of hedge. I cannot remember any sat on ones...
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Have you seen the programme @Old Boar ? (S3E3 I think). I’ve never kept pigs before so find it hard to judge, except to think it seems a costly/laborious way to keep relatively small numbers of pigs if you’re creating enclosures out of new fencing materials in the middle of fields, just to strike them and move the pigs on after a fairly short while.
 
Slackjawedyokel said:
Have you seen the programme @Old Boar ? (S3E3 I think). I’ve never kept pigs before so find it hard to judge, except to think it seems a costly/laborious way to keep relatively small numbers of pigs if you’re creating enclosures out of new fencing materials in the middle of fields, just to strike them and move the pigs on after a fairly short while.
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Would be far cheaper and easier to keep them inside
 
I had an email re. Clarkson’s Farm read out on last weeks Kermode and Mayo’s Take (podcast) (23rd May edn) - towards the end of the podcast.

The week previously Simon mentioned he’d not seen a program he was supposed to be reviewing because he’d got too absorbed watching CF.

My email was phone composed while I was supervising Child 2s drumming lesson 🫨 so it wasn’t necessary too coherent but I think it came across ok. Basically, farmers on average quite like CF because, although a lot is staged, it gets more to the heart of the difficulties that farmers face than most of the other TV progs (Countryfile etc), and does it in an entertaining way to a wide audience.
 
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