Thursday 6th August 2015
Pigs in the field next to the Grovelands Way Children’s Play Park, Warminster.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Thursday 6th August 2015.
Pigs In The Field Next To The Grovelands Way Children’s Play Park, Warminster
Category: Agriculture: Livestock: Pigs
A Prolific Sow At Crockerton
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 22 January 1870:
On Monday a sow belonging to Mr. Hurd, of Crockerton, farrowed 11 pigs and on Thursday morning 9 more. Eighteen are still alive and doing well.
Pigs Are A Necessary Appendage To Every Dairy Farm In Wiltshire
George Alexander Cooke, in his Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Wilts, published between 1802 and 1810, writes:
“Swine. Pigs are looked upon to be a necessary appendage to every dairy farm; a great number are bred with the whey and offal of the dairy, and many fatted. Barley-meal, mixed with the whey, is the general fatting food. Pease are not so much used as formerly.”
“The kind of pig is generally a mixture of the long-eared white with the black African, or Negro pig; which cross has been found to be a very great improvement.”