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

Summary of Stunning Show Season

We now only have 3 breeds – Saddleback, Tamworth and Old Spot and in 2023 we only attended three shows.

First Show – HEATHFIELD

Reserve Champion with a Tamworth

Best of Breed – Tamworth, Saddleback and Old Spot

Second Show – SOUTH OF ENGLAND

Reserve Champion with an Old Spot

Best of Breed – Tamworth, Saddleback and Old Spot

Third Show – OXTED AND EDENBRIDGE

Supreme Champion with a Saddleback

Best of Breed – Tamworth and Saddleback

SADDLEBACK BREEDERS CLUB – NATIONAL FINAL at MALVERN

Nancy the January 2023 born Saddleback qualified for the National Finals with her wins above.

And went on to win the Young Saddleback of the Year 2023 at Malvern

Clare and Nancy with Judge Arthur Uglow (and their “small” rosette)

SUPREME CHAMPION AT EDENBRIDGE SHOW

Having been Best of Breed at the South of England Show – Nancy the January 2023 born Saddleback won her class at the Oxted and Edenbridge Show. Then went on to win Best Traditional Breed and finally to win Supreme Champion of the show.

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