Pig talk

DrRod · Jun 13, 2016

Similar, I always heard that you could look at the joints in a ham and, if the joint was rough the pig had been raised on corn, if smooth it was raised on peanuts. A few old timers said that, because of this, they ate a few peanuts everyday to keep their joints operating smoothly.

Bird · Jun 13, 2016

There was a time, many years ago, at least in the south central part of Oklahoma when some restaurants put their waste food scraps in containers that a local hog farmer picked up to feed his hogs. But when the government decided that such hog feed would have to be heated to a certain temperature (re-cooked, in other words) to kill any bad stuff in it, that made it too expensive to feed the hogs and those scraps had to be added to the restaurants' garbage.

chinton · Jun 13, 2016

Back when I was in jr high - high school I raised registered Duroc hogs. The joke back then was you made just enough money to break even and lost money when you quit as your equipment was good enough for the hogs but nobody wanted to buy at the auction. We always made sure our fence fabric went a good bit into the ground to discourage the rooting under the fences and then used hog panel on the inside. Seems like there for a while it was kind of trendy to let them run wild in the pastures, but I think they had to refigure that later.

Anyway we fed ours a mix from the feed mill and didn't let them roam with the horses, cows or sheep. They made their own wallow by the automatic waterer, so we didn't have to help them with that.

We had one sow that didn't like being the farrowing crate and an old neighbor guy had told us to calm them down to give them a can of beer. We gave her a can of Buckhorn and she calmed down enough and had her pigs. When we transferred her to her own pen she bit all of her pigs. She then got transferred to the trailer and on to slaughter. She was one of the best tasting hogs we had.