00:00:11intelligence adaptability and all-round
00:00:14gregariousness Pig then what you have to
00:00:17do it stink money if you go out for a
00:00:24walk in the woods with a dog you know
00:00:26they’re going to be charging around
00:00:28looking down holes and generally having
00:00:30a lovely old time if you went for a walk
00:00:32with a pig the pig would spend a lot
00:00:34more time with its snout dog firmly in
00:00:37the ground actually turning the ground
00:00:39over looking for goodies to eat this is
00:00:42called routing and rooting behavior is
00:00:44perhaps one of the most essential
00:00:46features of a pig behaving how a pig is
00:00:49meant to behave all domesticated pigs
00:00:52are descended from wild boar so what’s a
00:00:55pig’s natural environment well this is
00:00:57right here in the woods
00:01:02hello piggley’s hello big mummies here
00:01:07comes tea
00:01:09no no no no that’s not what I had in
00:01:14mind darling darling come on you come
00:01:19back in you come back in oh what a
00:01:24relief
00:01:25right come on grubs up okay so we’re not
00:01:30in the forest here but we are in a
00:01:31genuinely stimulating environment and
00:01:34one that really encourages the pigs
00:01:36rooting behaviour
00:01:39there we go
00:01:43these sows have got fantastic maternal
00:01:46instincts they do literally build a nest
00:01:48for their piglets and it’s quite
00:01:50impressive to see
00:01:51and they really nurtured them in the
00:01:53most fantastic caring way whoa and when
00:01:57they turn on your feet it really hurts
00:01:59you right you too
00:02:00you fancy a Kip after your tea if you go
00:02:04in there you won’t find even a speck of
00:02:06pig poo because these animals really are
00:02:08surprisingly clean aren’t you they do
00:02:11like a good scratch though in fact you
00:02:13won’t find any pig poo in the immediate
00:02:15vicinity of the ark because they always
00:02:17go away from where they’re living to do
00:02:19their business you’re coming in I think
00:02:24he probably thinks I’m the smelly one
00:02:26look at these pigs snuffling in the
00:02:28ground doing what pigs were designed to
00:02:31do that’s why for me it just has to be
00:02:34free-range knowing that it comes from
00:02:36happy contented animals like these one
00:02:39of which is literally trying to rip the
00:02:42feed back out from under my bottom don’t
00:02:44do that
00:02:45steady on
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