Farm TrailsTeacher's NotesAbout Organic Farming
Abbey Home FarmMore about the farmArrange a visit

1

Farm shop & café

 
2

Vegetables


 
3

Yellow-stone wood

 
4

Totem pole

 
5

Cereals

 
6

Pigs

 
7

Chickens

 
8

Dairy cows

 
Pigs

Pigs

The pigs graze the fields of clover and grass before these fields are ploughed up to grow cereal crops. They are given plenty of room to roam and there are muddy areas to allow the pigs to do what they like best – wallowing! Pigs are very inquisitive and interested in what is going on and they enjoy meeting the visitors as much as the visitors like meeting them.

  • Organic pigs are given the highest standards of animal welfare. While other pigs may be kept indoors all the time, organic pigs are either kept out of doors or have plenty of opportunity to go outside.

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» DID YOU KNOW?

A female pig is called a sow. A sow can have two lots of piglets (called 'a litter') each year. There are usually ten piglets per litter.


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