New Forest Pannage Pigs

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by posie

Funny how the acorns don't harm pigs, must be a different digestive system. How about deer, you said horses and cattle are affected but you didn't mention deer....... ***POSIE***

Hi Posie, yep the deer will eat the acorns too with no ill-effects.

[Beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

The rights of Common go back to the days of William the Conquerer & probably before him.

There are six rights of Common:

The Common of Pasture - ponies, cattle, donkeys & mules.

The Common of Mast - pigs for a minimum of 60 days during the pannage season (though some sows 'in pig' known as 'Privilage Sows' are alowed on the Forest out of the pannage season until they give birth as long as they go home at night but permission has to be sought from the Forestry Commission).

The Common of Marl - the right to take Marl (limey clay) from recognised pits on the Forest - no longer practiced.

The Common of Turbury - the right to cut turf fuel - no longer practiced.

The Common of Estovers - the right to firewood from the Forest - hundreds of years ago it was only fallen dead wood. Now the Forestry Commission, as Ian says, cuts plantation timber into 'cords' - timber stacks 4'x4'x8' - & allocates it to those with that right.

The Common of Sheep - there are very few properties with this right attatched & I don't think it is practiced anymore.

Not all Forest properties have these rights of common & the ones that do vary to which are attatched.
The earliest formal 'Register of Claims' known at the mo is from 1635 (though obviously practiced hundreds of years before). This document would have all the Holdings & their attatched rights on the Forest. There were succesive Register of Claims in 1670, 1792, 1857, 1949 (& probably more I don't know about) & the Forest Atlas produced after the 1964 New Forest Act, which is the one referred to now if you want to find out if your property has any rights & become a Commoner.

Thanks for providing the info i left out Deer Stalker

ian

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by Beekeeper

Thanks for providing the info i left out Deer Stalker

ian

No worries Ian.

No idea on the breeds of pigs though. Most of the ones I see I think are Gloucester old spots but I'm not sure - I will find out.

As to wild boar, when they do get here I dont think the Commission will try to eradicate them, but they will cull them as they do in the Forest of Dean.

[Keith Talbot]

Wow! im glad i posted these pics now,this thread has been very educational

[Vincent86]

That is indeed a lovely sight. My parents got some pigs in their place and I say they are hard to catch when they are able to escape.

[Stagemaster]

Just reading through this really interesting old thread. I am off to the New Forest for a few days and would really like to see some pigs. Are there any areas where there is a good chance of seeing them?

Thanks.

[monkey]

Hi

Its not easy to predict where they will be but I have seen them at:
- Nomansland
- if you leave the M27 motorway at the Lyndhurst junction (Junc 1 and heading towards Bournemouth) and take the 3rd exit on the roundabout they are quite often along that road thats where the photos in this thread were taken
- Pannage stupidity
- have also seen them around Burley

Good luck hope you find them and you will love the forest while you are searching

Linda

[mbaldw]

As Linda says, it can be difficult to predict as they roam within about half-a-mile of the farm from which they're released. That said, I photographed some the other week (including a sow and her piglets) around Balmer Lawn, Bolderwood Road and Millyford Enclosure. In previous years, I've seen them at Deerleep Inclosure and around Highland Water/Queens Meadow and Ober Heath.

Good luck.
Cheers,
Marc.