To make the perfect mud bath you will need;

• 6 adolescent pigs
• small parcel of pasture
• 30 mm of rain
• a sense of humour

Enclose the pigs on the pasture. Apply the rain evenly over ten days. Feed the pigs twice daily to encourage them to root.

“et voilà” good pasture turned to mud bath in under two weeks.

It might all look calm and orderly in the photo but there’s quite a bit of pushing and shoving at feeding time.  We were feeding the pigs in the middle of their paddock and it was only going to be a matter of time before one of us belly flopped into the mud.