Michaela Giles
Michaela Giles
Origin of Content: Smallholding Courses
Let the team at Tedfold Cottage Farm show you how to keep pigs healthy and safe. Our one-day courses are 50:50 theory and hands-on. We believe that you can read when you like but cannot always handle pigs when you like so our emphasis is on the hands-on. You will feed the pigs in the [...]
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Written by: Tedfold Cottage Farm
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Kept in the correct environment, pigs are without doubt the easiest and most rewarding farm animal you can keep. They are extremely intelligent, very forgiving, great de-stressors after a hard day at work, always so very pleased to see you and contrary to widely held belief, are very clean animals. Good husbandry ensures they only [...]
Micropigs; teacup pigs; minipigs; or whatever they are calling them in order to command obscene prices from a gullible public, are just the product from repeated runt to runt breeding and some very clever marketing. The cute pictures you see are piglets that are a maximum of a few days old. With unknown ancestry [...]
Tedfold Cottage Farm We are Neil, Michaela and Oliver Giles, a small family run smallholding on the Sussex / Surrey border and near a direct train service from London Victoria. We specialise in and exhibit British Saddleback pigs with an emphasis on the rarer bloodlines. We also have other prick and lop eared breeds kept purely [...]
Part 2 of our series of pig keeping articles written by Michaela Giles of www.tedfoldcottagefarm.co.uk. Are you sitting comfortably? Is your brain in receiving mode? Yes? Great! Get ready for a big read for you to digest regarding rules and regulations about pig keeping kindly written by Michaela. Arrrgh! CPH Number The absolute first priority [...]
Part 1 of our series of pig keeping articles written by Michaela Giles of www.tedfoldcottagefarm.co.uk. Pigs are, in my opinion and the opinion of most other pig keepers, the easiest livestock animals on the farm to look after. Of course you have to invest in a little time to maximise your experience, but pigs will reward [...]