Oaklands Pigs - Sharing our Expertise
Clare & Robin welcome you to the Oaklands Pigs website
Oaklands Farm is a working farm on the Kent/East Sussex Border, near Tunbridge Wells.
We started keeping pigs over 25 years ago, mostly raising weaners for the freezer before starting breeding from our own stock.
We are not currently running any pig keeping courses.
In early 2005 we replaced our many assorted pigs with new pedigree saddleback breeding stock, the foundation of our saddleback herd today.
Apart from these, we have examples of some of the other traditional pigs, including Tamworths and Kune Kune. We have also kept Middle Whites, Welsh, Oxford Sandys, Berkshires, Large Whites, Old Spots, Landrace, Large Blacks and Mangalitzas in the past. We have recently reduced the number of animals at the farm and now have around a dozen adult breeding stock.
So between us we have many years of experience of buying, keeping and breeding pigs, and offer friendly advice to those new to pig keeping, or those thinking of moving on to breeding pigs.
Here at the farm we have set up a number of different environments in paddocks, woods, and barns with an assortment of styles of fencing and numerous varieties of arks, so there is always something going on at the farm.
Being a small farm, we can take the time to discuss and help you choose your pigs, and give help and advice on setting up and all aspects of pig keeping.
For disease control purposes, we do not hire any boars from this farm, or accept sows for mating.
We are not able to offer any vet student or work experience placements, as there is very little maintenance required for our outdoor herd.
Latest News
Rain holds off for Spring Show
The weather forecast was pretty bleak for the bank holiday weekend, but apart from an odd brief shower, we escaped the rain at the show. Luckily the pigs were inside the animal barn, so they were snug warm and dry all weekend. Whilst the show was not packed there was a steady footfall and lots of piggy questions to be answered. We took the two Kune Kune pigs Margot and Gerry who just loved meeting and greeting and “talking” the public. This breed is very much a grazing animal so before the show opened and after it closed we took them for a walk on the grass around the stands, much to the amusement of the other stallholders.
Squadron of Saddlebacks
It’s that time of year, when the girls go out on the new spring pasture. Here a squadron of 11 saddlebacks seem quite contented in the spring sunshine. All in various states of pregnancy, some of them will soon be returning to the yard to give birth whilst the others have several months before they are due.