[Sca-cooks] Pigs help New Forest ponies

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

Ha! HA! HA! I WIN! Ras was wrong, and I was right, and pigs WERE set 
loose to graze in the forest, dammit! 

*Funky Victory Dance!*

(Yes, my dears, I've been collecting research on herding because I once, 
way back 3 incarnations of the list ago, had an argument with Ras about 
whether pigs were raised exclusively in pens, as they are now, or 
allowed to forage in the forests at will in the middle ages, then 
rounded up and fattened for the winter kill. Research Weenie grudges are 
immortal.)

-- Jadwiga

> Phlip posted this article"
>   <<< http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/94940.html  >>>
> 
> In the article it mentioned:
> <<< For a fee of just ?1 the commoner is permitted to graze a pig in  
> the forest for 60 days. Last year less than 200 pigs were let out;  
> 'There were not many acorns so owners just didn't feel it was worth  
> it,' Mr Gerrelli explained.
> But this year he hopes between 300 and 400 pigs will be released into  
> the forest. "Touch wood there haven't been any acorn deaths so far,"  
> he said, "but this year a lot more pigs will be needed." >>>
> 
> It sounds like the pigs were just set free to browse. I had gotten  
> the idea somewhere that several pigs were set loose together with a  
> swinehard to keep track of them and perhaps herd them.
> 
> If this isn't the case, how do you get *your* pig back at the end of  
> grazing season. Are/were the pigs branded?
> 
> Stefan
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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it screams
'Why don't you ever listen to me?' and lets fly with a club."