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

Autumn Show

The day did not start out bad on Saturday 6th October, but by lunchtime the heavens had opened and there was torrential rain. All the arena demonstrations were cancelled and the public exited en masse. Luckily our pigs were in the Abergavenny building in the dry. Sunday could not be more different with glorious warm sunshine and loads of people there all day. We took some of our show pigs for next year including Tamworth, Saddlebacks and Landrace and they soon got used to people stroking them and all the sights and sounds of the show.

Celebs on Oaklands Farm

The new series of Celebs on the Farm started at 10pm on 5Star on Monday 20th August. Episode 4 on Thursday 23rd August was their day with us at Oaklands Pigs. If you missed it you can still catch up on My5 at My5TV .

The Celebrities :- Lorraine Chase, Sandi Bogle, Charlotte Dawson, Megan McKenna, Gleb Savchenko, Louie Spence, Bobby Norris, Ashley McKenzie

They first met the piglets and then went onto to wash and shampoo their own pig ready for the show. After a little bit of chasing the pigs around the field, they soon got the hang of working with a stick and board and then competed in two mini show heats. With 8 Celebrities and a crew of nearly 30 we had our work cut out keeping tabs on everyone. So apart from camera and sound men, there were producers, editors, wardrobe, drivers, minders, catering, runners and a medic

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