Hogs for meat

[sumi]

A few years ago I kept pigs and ended up keeping quite a few more than originally planned. The smell wasn't an issue. If you keep their pens clean it's very manageable. My biggest complaint about them would be the noise. Those things can take your ears off, especially around feeding time. If you want to keep your pigs under cover, that would be my biggest concern.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Is he hungry? Put a big ol pan of feed in front of him...shoot him while his head is down. That's what we did when we processed a couple big ol' feeders a few years ago. They died happy!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh, that changes things, lol!

We hauled our last one to a processor. Got a trailer you can feed him in? Mine will jump right up into the trailer if there's food...getting them out of the trailer at the processor was a different story, lol!

 

[NH Homesteader]

See I can't eat gamey old bucks. Seasoned or not. So I just know I would be sensitive to boar taint. I personally stick with, I don't eat boars. Too bad, they're cheap!

 

[NH Homesteader]

They also eat about twice as much food to gain the same amount of weight because they have to use energy staying warm... Not that you have winters like I do but still.

We use hog panels. We move them when they run out of fresh grass. It's a lot of work but our pigs are happy pigs and they're clearing some land for us and eating a little less food too!

 

[milkmansdaughter]

That's what I'm thinking. I saw another Craigslist ad for a free "large" "micro" boar. I'm wondering if I brought it home, and fed it for two months, maybe we could eat it? It's 4 years old. I've read a little on "micro" pigs and how big they really get, and how there really is no such thing as a "teacup" or "micro" pig.
@baymule, what do I need to have and know before I picked up a "free" pig? @CrealCritter, I followed your posts too. What did you wish you knew before you got your pig? Any other advice, much appreciated!

 

[baymule]

@milkmansdaughter

Our first feeder pigs

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/feeder-pigs.32154/

our second feeder pigs (graphic pictures-we butchered them)

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/feeder-pigs-2017.35395/

Our third batch of pigs, these were full grown and such a low price that we couldn't pass them up!

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/baymules-pigs-2017-2018.36803/

 

[baymule]

Why don't I have a pig pen already?

https://carbondale.craigslist.org/grd/d/christmas-special-on-pigs/6433810973.html

https://carbondale.craigslist.org/grd/d/pigs-forsale/6411699236.html

Spring is almost here! Do you have a pig pen yet?

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lol yeah... That doesn't surprise me. People don't want you eating their pets!

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Lol @baymule! The only reason I'm even CONSIDERING a pig is from reading your links... Too much reading gets me in trouble around here!

We are at the very corner of the county and the very very edge of the city limits though it is mostly country here. But I was checking local ordinances here and we are not allowed ANY kind of pig or any of the swine family. It's already in the 70's here this week with tons of rain, so I think I'll table this till winter so the smell will be lower... I do have room, and a fence and a shelter though! Im ready... Maybe they'd believe I was "pig-sitting" for just a few weeks??

@Chic Rustler, I'll try to remember to leave the knife in the truck and not to be drooling when I go pick up free pork!!