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Clipping the teeth is most definitely needed. It is not done for the comfort of the sow, but to ensure that the babies don't injure each other. When they are nursing, they will often bite the littermates that are nursing on either side of them, and this opens a little wound that allows...

In my opinion, anytime from 3 days to 4 weeks is the optimum time. I liked to wait till they were nursing well and able to get under the heat lamps before I castrated them. The longer you wait the harder it is on you and the pigs. They can be quite a handful to hold if you wait too long.

I'd forget the castration with a boar that big. It will be far too stressful for him. Boars have much larger testicles for their body size than most other farm animals, and it's very hard on them to be castrated at that size. I really can't see much advantage in it, since he will lose a lot...

Try going to a farm auction and getting an old used grain wagon of come type. Most elevators will have cracked corn that they will deliver for a nominal fee, and you can save a lot of $$$. You can also have them mix protein pellets or other supplements that you might want to add. You can buy...

Don't know your location, but with adequate grain and 6A of pasture you shouldn't need much hay. A 950 lb heifer or steer shouldn't need creep feed at all. Corn would be my grain of choice, and it shouldn't cost you more than $7/bu. I'd feed each animal around 20 lbs per day. That would cost...

It's an old trick that certainly works well. Just be sure it's "lite" beer, or they will get too fat!

There are problems with crossing buffalo (correct name is bison) and cattle. The crossing of a cattle bull with a bison cow will not work, but the opposite cross does work. The resulting offspring is fertile (unlike mules). I happen to have some beefalo semen in one of my tanks. It is very...

175 lbs at three months sounds like malnutrition, unless he's a mini or something. My calves routinely gain 100 lbs in their first 6 weeks, and near 100 lbs each month after that. What breed is he?