Do I Even Know How to Raise a Pig?

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47 thoughts on “Do I Even Know How to Raise a Pig?”

  5. The farm is looking great Morgan! Hoop coop 2.0 is awesome! Has Alfred taught you how to use the excavator yet? I learned to run the mini ex this summer and the skid steer. Quite fun!

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  9. Start with three pigs, no body makes it to 300lbs or three years. Rotate the stock every fall. I have supplied hundreds of hogs. Hold back the best and trade for new genetics. Dairy animals are a whole different commitment! Milk cows are awesome, but it's best to share. 6 gallons a day is a lot of grass and sunshine!

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  11. Pigs like potatoes, and you have a tractor, so you know what to do.

    Potatoes would be nice and cheap addition to their winter diet, same like carrots and pumpkins, easy to store in the field cellar.

    Good luck!🍻

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  13. I like how the Pork Rhyne's man mentioned the intelligence of pigs, that's something most people forget or are surprised by, shows that he's keeping in mind the overall wellbeing of the pigs.

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  20. I thought 2-3 pigs. No more than 3. Your advisor is correct about the pig temperament.
    I am a retired psychiatrist (MD) who is my family's first doctor. Yes, I left the farming community. My uncle was a part time farmer full time truck driver. He kept 3 pigs. Yes, he had chickens. The garden was not small. Morgan, Allison's garden is nice but it is small. Even my parents garden was much much larger. It was the years veggies. The freezer was used to store the veggies. Tomatoes were canned. Mother made some excellent tomato sauce. We had 9 apple trees so every way an apple can be prepared, we did. Father kept those trees pruned. My maternal grandparents lived next door and their garden, although smaller than my parents was larger than Allison 's garden. I grew up thinking Asperagus was an inexpensive vegetable only to learn later away from home how expensive it is. It was on the menu weekly (or more) for 9 months/year fresh and then in hard winter out of the freezer (Mom's favorite veggie).
    So different relatives had different farms. Most relatives were part time farmers and one or both of the adults had an off the farm job. This was true of most of the kids with whom I went to school. A valid excuse from school was hunting in the late fall. The youngest every yr was 8 yo. To be in anybody's hunting party, one had to be able to care for the rifle (strip and clean it); shoot it accurately at the paper targets, and follow directions.
    This is the way of life I left. I didn't fit. I don't have fine & gross motor coordination. I didn't leave the values behind.

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  26. You could try asking the local grocery store what fruit and vegetables they're throwing away. Ditto with restaurant food scraps. That's food that otherwise goes into landfills. It might not be enough, but it would reduce both your costs (and theirs) and expand the nutritional profile of what you're feeding them. Meanwhile, all that manure can be doing good things to your land.

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  30. As well as the spent grain from the brewery, you could also contact any cafes or restaurants in the area. There is always leftover food from service that gets tossed right into the garbage, which would make great food for pigs. We used to have an agreement with a local airport nearby and we never had to buy grain or feed for our pigs.

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  31. Climate crisis . Carbon footprint . 😆😆 Lie to me and tell me you don't watch CNN religiously

    Remember folks, Google….which is China, owns YouTube which this is broadcast on, and China produces more carbon emissions then the top 👉5👈 G7 countries ..combined.. Its all propagandized rhetoric

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