Pasture Raised Pigs and other animals

[Duffster]

Do they dig or make any mud holes?

 

[firefighter9208]

Do they dig or make any mud holes?

They do have rings in their noses. They root to some extent, but don't dig huge holes, because of the rings.


As of now I have been soaking a low spot for them each afternoon. It's kinda funny that I can turn on the water hose and they come running. I'll spray them and they will shake like a dog.

It's been 90 degrees or over here where I live for over 100 days in a row. They are forecasting that the heat will finally break in a couple days and the temps will be more seasonal (highs in the 70's to low 80's and lows in the 50's). They are able to withstand more heat due to their skin color though.

Chris

 

[Redgoatea]

Hope you're getting a good price for the pork. I bought a 6lb shoulder from my local farmers market for $35. It was good but not $5+ per pound good. 7

 

[Jeff Quinn]

Tamworth is good meat. They have not been bred to be "the other white meat", but have good old-fashioned pork flavor. i also like Durocs, especially for hams. Durocs are the Jennifer Lopez of the hog world, having nice big round rumps! makes some very tasty country hams.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

What kind of fencing would you need to keep the porkers around? Our chickens keep getting wiped out, I'm thinking moving to a sturdier stock might help.

A single strand electric nose wire around the pasture is the only fence you will need for pigs. Of course, that won't keep other animals out. Pigs are amazingly smart. They will get shocked once and never touch the wire again.

 

[sweettractors]

I have a rich friend that set his Son up in Organic Beef, chicken and Pork farming. He searched the entire world for the best breed of cattle and chickens and Hogs to use, that would do good on Grass/legume pastures with no grain supplement on any animals. I tried some of the product and it does have a acquired taste. Sort of like deer or Rabbits or Squirrels or frogs meat, that I grew up on. I liked it and my wife did not. Ken Sweet

 

[schmism]

what butcher weight (hoof weight) have you been useing? how much take home meet did you get from your half?

 

[Duffster]

A single strand electric nose wire around the pasture is the only fence you will need for pigs. Of course, that won't keep other animals out. Pigs are amazingly smart. They will get shocked once and never touch the wire again.

Very true years ago I worked on a hog farm that pastured sows. If you took the fence down and laid grain down across where the fence was they would eat right up to where the fence was and stop.

 

[sweettractors]

Very true years ago I worked on a hog farm that pastured sows. If you took the fence down and laid grain down across where the fence was they would eat right up to where the fence was and stop.

Duffster, you are sure right, I raised Feeder pigs and topped out some hogs in the early eighties and It would about be impossible to rotational graze hogs or pigs with electric fence. Once, they know where it is, it takes days for them to cross that line even after it has been removed. Ken Sweet

 

[marimus]

A single strand electric nose wire around the pasture is the only fence you will need for pigs. Of course, that won't keep other animals out. Pigs are amazingly smart. They will get shocked once and never touch the wire again.

That works a treat for keeping pigs in your pasture, but funnily enough it won't keep wild hogs out.

If you have wild hogs in the area, they too learn about the hot wire, but they also learn that they can just run through it and it's over in an instant :laughing:

Then they get the nice food, or the nice girls. Some wild hogs will even start to squeel 10-15 feet away from the wire, anticipating the hurt, but they still go through it.