sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Dec 12 2010 : 12:38:42 PM
we just picked up our pig. oh my goodness. we have beed growing hog for 15 years. this is the best we have ever done. lean and sweet and mild. what can i say. main diet of our hamp york blue butts was isabelle jersey raw milk, fresh eggs lots of them fresh red worms alfalfa hay pounds of apples at finish with extra cultured milk. i have customers calling saying how great it is. we are going to crunch numbers on yield. i think my neighbors who i raise a pig for will do our own next time. i have the stuff and help. then just take ham and bacon in till we learn smokeing. just so happy it turned out so good. wanted to share with you all. we could have sold 10 butcher pigs this time around. customers are coming in. so we have 6 growing now. they hung at 200-195-185-185 oh happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm farm girl #1014
Yum! That sounds so good, Sherrye. I just called about getting 2 from some friends. They had 4 sows and they all had piglets around the end of Oct. She said there are about 35 babies. Most are all white but I saw 2 that are red with white middles. I told her I want those 2. So they will save them for me til after Christmas. I want to keep them on the mother as long as possible. So I hope in about 4 months we will have some good pork too. I have half a freezer full of goat milk that they will be getting.
Tall Holly
True Blue Farmgirl
2305 Posts
Holly
Worcester
Vermont
USA
2305 Posts
Posted - Dec 12 2010 : 6:01:32 PM
You did great in the summer pig business. Two of ours were 192 hangning weight. Two we taped and sold on the hoof. We ahd 8 pigs. We fed 50 pounds of grain a day until October and then because they wandered themselves down the hill we had to keep them penned and fed 100 pounds a day. they grew very well foraging on grubs and worms and nuts and apples. Who knows what they ate as they wandered. They were happy.
The grain store gave us a printout at the end of the season telling how much we bought each month. That printout was agreat time saver.
We did winter pigs last year but they cost more per pound to raise because they could not wander at will.
Our pigs came back yeaterday in convenient vacuum sealed bags.
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Dec 12 2010 : 6:12:57 PM
oh holly that is so great.you have a nice hanging weight also.our sows live at lisas farm.she has 30 acres. they come when we call them. the big girls are bred back to a blue butt. ALEE it takes 6 months to grow them out. after that they get hard to handle. pushing fence, just cause they can. silly pigs. we have a back up mama pig. her name is ice. she runs loose. comes when called. kris i am glad you got some pigs. hope some more of you come along on the great pig adventure. well there ya go.we need to start a pig thread. all tings pig.lol what do ya think girls? happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm farm girl #1014
got milk wow bacon
Posted - Dec 12 2010 : 12:38:42 PM
