Hands on with the Pigs
Hands on courses will be held for small numbers throughout the year where you will join Ian on a morning with the pigs. This will not be a formal course and can be arranged either at weekends or mid week. You will be able to participate and to ask questions as you go along.
The cost will be £65 for a single person, £30 for each additional person.

Accommodation is available on the farm, either self catering accommodation or ensuite B&B in the farmhouse including our full farmhouse breakfast where you will be able to sample our award winning sauasages and rare breed bacon.

Smallicombe is home to the well known Smallicombe Herd of Rare breed pigs. You can have the opportunity to visit our Rare Breed Pigs in their own surroundings.
We have Berkshire, Middle White and British Lop pigs, rare breeds being protected under the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
These weekends allow you the opportunity not normally available nowadays to see traditional pigs being reared under natural conditions. You can have a real 'Hands on Experience' or just watch others do the work!
The accommodation can be B&B or self catering.
In the farmhouse the weekend would normally start with a relaxed evening on the Friday night, though our Piggy weekends can also be midweek if preferred, taking the opportunity to browse the wide range of books and videos on offer.

After a relaxing nights sleep and a full farmhouse breakfast using our own bacon and sausages you will come out onto the farm. We breed pigs throughout the year and usually have litters of rare breed piglets. You will be able to compare the characteristics of the different breeds and also our individual sows who have their own distinctive characters. The course will cover housing, hubandry, and all the legal requiremnts now needed to keep livestock.
 The following day you can spend further time with the pigs and if you wish walk round the farm to see our Dorset Down breeding ewes and the Ruby Devon cattle.