December 21st 2007

Toys For Piglets

Piglets are very curious and inquisitive animals. They love to nibble on welly boots which is quite cute when they are small but may not be so cute when they get bigger.

Piglets love to chew on things and when they are bored they sometimes start to nibble on the other piglets curly tails. This can often end in serous injury for the piglet whose tail is being nibbled.

It is therefore important to keep your piglets entertained and to divert their attention away from the other piglets.

Toys suitable for the pigstye include:

  • Strong plastic containers that have been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
  • Old tyres.
  • Chains hung from the ceiling.

I have placed some empty plastic containers into the pig pen and the pigs love to nibble on them and push them around the pigstye. Hopefully this will deter them from nibbling on my wellies!

Posted in: Pigs

4 Comments »

  1. Toys for pigs - how brilliant! I’d never thought of this. Maybe you can go into selling them to other frustrated pig farmers!

    Comment by Jane — December 21, 2007 @ 7:10 am

  2. Hi Sara

    Our pigs used to love footballs! They almost looked like a team as they chased after the balls!

    Hope they are doing well.

    TopVeg

    Comment by TopVeg — December 21, 2007 @ 5:31 pm

  3. Pigs make me laugh the way they root through anything and everything1 x

    Comment by Louise — December 22, 2007 @ 9:03 pm

  4. That’s really interesting Sara, I had no idea that pigs need toys!

    Comment by Cottage Smallholder — December 23, 2007 @ 8:43 am

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