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- In cold weather pigs tend to huddle to keep warm and rely on their fat for insulation. In warm weather they wallow in water and mud to keep cool. Pigs are sensitive to extremes of climate as they have no sweat glands (except for on the tip of their snout) and no thick hair cover.
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Where to spot pigs during Pannage season in the New Forest. Every autumn the sound of gentle snuffling comes from the undergrowth in the The New Forest. Pannage season sees Commoners turn their pigs out on the open forest, exercising the Right of Mast which dates back to medieval times.
This year's pannage season will commence on Monday 16 September and end on Friday 22 November 2024. A few hundred pigs trot around the New Forest every autumn and do an important job of eating many of the acorns that fall at this time of year so it’s vital that people don’t feed the pigs or drop human food.
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Monitor sow feed intake in warm weather. If sows are not eating, take steps to cool them down or provide more energy-dense feed. Feed sows twice a day if not on an ad-lib system.
Provide wallows early in the year as well as throughout summer, or sprinklers for sows to cool down in. In individual paddocks, you could create a spray of water from the sow drinkers, providing an area of mud in which the sow can stand or wallow.
Painting farrowing arcs white will reflect sunlight and reduce the temperature inside by up to 7°C. Using insulated arcs, fully insulated where possible, together with painting white, will give an added temperature-reducing effect. An adjustable ventilation opening at the rear, and realigning arcs to assist with airflow, will also help.
Both can provide pigs with good living conditions, but some farming methods ignore their welfare needs. Here we take a look at pigs’ natural behaviours, pig farming methods, our main welfare concerns, and how we’re working to improve how they’re looked after.
Reproductive performance is an important factor for a successful pig unit. Explore our guidance below on topics such as condition scoring, timing of service, seasonality and artificial insemination.
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The practice of allowing Commoners to free their domestic pigs to roam the New Forest is called Pannage. Pannage is also named Common Mast. Pannage takes place every September when acorns and other nuts fall from the trees. The pigs will scour the forest to eat up all the acorns and nuts to unknowingly help the ponies and other cattle, in which ...
