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, Old Spots and Kune Kune. We have also kept Middle Whites, Welsh, Oxford Sandys, Berkshires, Large Whites, Landrace, Large Blacks and Mangalitzas in the past. With rising costs we have recently reduced the number of animals at the farm and now only keep one or two of each breed (Saddleback, Tamworth, Old Spot) as 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

Tamworth Triumph at Edenbridge

Tara the Tamworth certainly strutted her stuff at the weekend to come 2nd in a class of 11 for the July Gilt group. Tamworths do not normally feature highly in mixed breed classes, so to come second was the highlight of our day. 

The other pigs in the team all played their part and we came away with Best Tamworth, Best Old Spot and Best Saddleback. So a nice end to the showing season for 2017.

Children connect with the countryside

Oaklands Pigs once again attended the “Connect with the Countryside” event at the South of England showground. Around 5,000 children from Year 10 and 11 came from schools around Sussex, Surrey and Kent.

We were part of the farm animal section with cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and poultry amongst other more exotics. A lot were surprised to see how big pigs were at six months old and many did not know that pigs had hair, they thought they would be smooth skinned.

Our two January born saddlebacks and a January born Landrace were already experienced hands at the shows and were not phased at all by the crowds of children all wanting to stroke them and slept through most of the shouting and running around from the excited onlookers.

 

Photos

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Pigets

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Trixie the Tamworth says hello !

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The breeding boar

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Meeting the outdoor Herd

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Getting hands on