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Pigs to Pork

Sun, 11 May

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Smallholding Courses Wales

Come and spend a day learning all about pigs! Whether you are getting ready to welcome your first weaners, or already have a little pig experience and want to learn more - this course is for you! Taught by veterinary surgeons, on our well established smallholding.

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Pigs to Pork
Pigs to Pork

Dates

11 May 2025, 10:00 – 16:00

Smallholding Courses Wales, Argae Cottage, Haimwood, Haimwood SY22 6SQ, UK

On this Course:

Course Content:

Getting Started:

Everything you need to know about the legal stuff - registering to keep pigs, tags and movement licenses.   Choosing a breed, buying pigs.

Housing and Fencing:

How to provide your pigs with comfortable accommodation, and keep them where you want them to be!

Handling:

Moving pigs, handling for tags, injections etc.  Loading and travelling.

Feeding:

Selecting the right diet, avoiding over-fat pigs, and the law on feeding pigs.

Pig Health:

How to recognise a healthy pig, and identify common problems.

Worms, vaccine and common health issues.  Injection sites.

Creating an effective Health Plan.

Breeding and Farrowing:

Keeping a boar.  AI - you can do this!  Timing and technique.

Farrowing sties, care of mum and newborn piglets.

Pork:

Finishing pigs for pork.  Preparing for the abbatoir.

How much meat from a pig, what cuts to ask for, sausages and curing for ham & bacon.  Selling your produce.

Included on this Course

A delicious homecooked lunch, featuring fresh produce from our smallholding.  Plenty of tea, coffee and cake throughout.

Comprehensive booklet containing all the info taught during the day - no need to scribble notes (or try to remember everything!)

We want this course to be as useful to you as possible - so if there are specific topics you would like to see covered, please feel free to mention these when booking.  There will be time during the course for discussion and questions.

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