Thursday, 16 September 2010

Pigs unleashed to root out poisonous acorn glut

Gloucester Old Spot pigs foraging for acorns in New Forest, Hampshire Gloucester Old Spot pigs foraging for acorns in the New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph: Alamy

If you go down to the woods today you may be in for a big surprise. Not from teddy bears, but from an army of pigs snaffling up a bumper crop of acorns.

The mild spring and largely dry summer has yielded a glut of millions of green acorns, or oak nuts, in the New Forest in Hampshire.

Read the rest of the article at guardian.co.uk

posted by New Forest Bed and Breakfast

Be careful driving around the New Forest during the Autumn, as families of pigs can be found wandering freely on roads and in open public spaces.

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