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LIZ SHANKLAND
The Royal Welsh Show gets underway on Monday and TV animal expert Dr Rhys Jones faces his biggest challenge yet - in the pig ring in charge of a Tamworth sow.
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You can get a bargain at auction but beware of any pigs in a poke
Lots of pig breeders have been selling up this year because of rising costs but there is still a market for good pedigree stock, so I wouldn't expect to see pigs being sold at throwaway prices.
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Don't take the show rosettes for granted
In the commercial world, most sows are slaughtered around three years old - or earlier, depending on productivity and other factors.
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Every woman should have a Mark for his hog roast skills
By morning she had nine lovely piglets and, no doubt, some will be earmarked for future hog roasts.
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Livestock means lots of learning - and spending cash
When we had the barn built, it wasn't intended for livestock - it was just a big storage shed. Since using it for farrowing, however, some problems have arisen.
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How could I raise something from birth and then take it to slaughter?
Most knew that I had become a journalist, some knew I had worked in TV and radio, but there were few who knew about my departure into \"the good life\", running a smallholding in my spare time.
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I became adept at driving with one buttock on the seat
[...] I almost took the pig marquee down by reversing blind into the side of it.
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Going for the bronze, as we collect our mini-turkeys for Christmas
Turkeys are quite interesting and engaging birds to raise, but when the poults are tiny and vulnerable, you inevitably get casualties.
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Would you Adam and Eve it? A tipple from the apple's irresistible
The courtyard of the manor will be filled with cider producers from Wales, England, Ireland, Germany, France, and Spain selling their produce, there will be master classes on tasting and cooking with cider, as well as market stalls selling a variety of other products.
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