Piglets have finally arrived. Definitely not a phantom pregnancy Farm Hand Bandhu. It has seemed like she has been pregnant and ready to drop for most of this year. But they are finally here. Our best guess is that this is her a dozen litters or approximately 100 piglets. Heritage breeds longevity and productivity too it seems.
As her name implies she is not a purebred Large Black. She’s got a good bit of Berkshire in her too which seems to produce both black and spotted pigs. Her sister Black Steiner is still going strong too. Alison named then the Steiner Sisters for their incredible ability to do their own Read More
Diesel, one of the first pigs we bred has just been weaned. Great job Diesel Large Black cross Berkshire heritage Girl.
Here she is about a week ago with her 6 little Large Black Piglets. She ended up with 4 males and 2 females. Morley has sold at least one of the boars but the rest are looking for homes. Contact us if you are interested or you can buy now from our website.
Diesel and her Piglets
Sold Out. Pretty sure but you never know some folks can change their mind so give Moe a call to get on the waiting list. Here are the birth dates of the piglets and information on what has sold and what might be available (to the best of our abilities).
We are looking to wean off some of the Mum’s now. Working on sexing and marking — more to come.
Young Mum – 7 piglets born September 21 (8+ weeks approx)
2-females gone
SOLD OUT
Texas – 12 piglets born September 26 (7+ weeks approx)
SOLD OUT-Tim taking Boars and we are keeping the Gals
Steiner Spotty – born 28 September (7 weeks Read More
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We have sold out of our last three litters of pigs before they were even born. It would seem that we have been ahead of our time once again and raising pigs seems to be the new Black.
Thursday April 1, 2016
-Young Large Black piglets born
Friday April 2, 2016
-Spotty Steiner piglets born
Monday May 23, 2016
-weaned Spotty Steiner and Young Large Black from their litters
Friday May 27, 2016
-put Read More
Cass Amundsen and Kirsten from The Farm in Ewingsdale came to pick up more piglets yesterday. So much fun working with these young and talented farmers who are at the forefront of an incredible movement of people reconnecting with the land.
Thanks for sending us these great pictures of the happy piglets in their new pasture. (Quite jealous of all your Green Grass—trade some mud for that).
Here are a few pig pictures from the pick out and put in the pick Read More
We must be happy because our heritage breed pigs are doing a great job breeding. Alison and the girls did such a great job while I was away in Canada helping out my Mum on her farm and doing a few other things for a couple of weeks.
Where to start?
New Black Sow-6 piglets born – 20th April 2015
Steiner Black Sow-10 piglets born –
Steiner Spotty Sow-10 piglets born – 1st of May Read More
Alison I are just back from dropping off another 10 piglets to the farm Byron Bay.
Cass and Linda — Lucky Piglets
Thanks for doing such a great job getting the free range pig pen sorted out Linda, Cass and the farm Crew. I don’t think those piglets are going to get out of the Peter McDonald fencing setup you have put in. Awesome.
It was so great to see our little Large Blacks settle right in and get stuck into the beautiful wallow of rain soaked soil. Looking forward to the pending opening the Read More
Just another Sunday on the farm mucking out the pig pens with Alison. Cracked open a nice cold beer to celebrate a job well done. Our two Large Black Breeding sows were sure happy to get out of there farrowing pen into the long race with it’s built in wallowing pit.
Happy pigs and thirsty wife #pigsinmud #largeblackpigs #craftbeer @alisoncromwell
Our youngest sows have had their second litters and we are getting organised to wean them and grow a few out. We are also going to offer some for sale, or more accurately our daughter Morley is going to work her Gum Tree magic.
Steiner-Spot-9 piglets born -Nov 19th
Steiner-Black-10 piglets born – Nov 21st
These sows are Pure Bred Large Black Cross Berkshire bred with a pure bred registered Large Black.
They will be weaned on approximately January 14th and prices will start at $100 each.
Our original pure bred Large Black has had another litter.
A big thanks to Mike and TL for helping her out. They were born on December 23rd and sadly a few did not make it but we have five that are going well. Excited to get back to the farm to sex them and to pick out a couple to keep pure bred bloodlines going. We love the high bred vigour we have achieved through bringing in Berkshire blood lines overall but really feel it’s important to maintain the purebred Large Black as they are becoming very rare.
Here she is with her little Large Black Cuties.
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