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Please see my post, a pot belly pig only needs 3/4 to a cup twice a day, cut the scraps unless their part of the total, add lots of green leafy and roots just skip the potatoes. When you see a 10 month old girl weighing 237, 23.7 pounds a month. Its sad.

When I was a youngster, our calves where in a stall in the old barn which had a board missing. One after noon my cousin's friend came over and was getting loud in the barn which spooked the calves. They bolted out the missing space where the board should have been. My cousin and I tried to...

Two years ago i had a beautiful chamois alpine buck. My property is a triangle runing for 1800 feet along my road. I would chain my buck at the northern most lot and play with him there until breeding season. That year I went out to see him one morning and someone had shot at him or at least his...

Please my entry on a previous forum. Your already putting 13 pounds of fat on him a month you may want to slow down. To much can lead to leg and joint problems, digestive problems, movement problems, and heart attack. Limit snacks and extra food even if he yells for it. To much may be...

Having lived on a farm for 68 years and as a youngin as far back as i can remember we would raise a hog, kill it, scald it, scrape it, gut it, divide it in half then quarters, take it in to the garage or house which had been cleaned, cut it into cuts, saving the various types of lard, ground and...

I guess I'm a little discussed after the weekend, I picked up a 3 year old mini boar in good shape and a 10 month old mini pot belly gilt. I went to get the gilt first and then the boar, both intact, because I wanted to raise the Asian Heritage Breed hog for a pig that produced not an overly...

Sorry to change the subject a bit but i live in PA zone 5b,6 and up till last spring raised goat for 50 years, the winters do get down around -10 so we do have cold and snow, and have to buy hay. This conception that because goats are browsers and eat leaves and shubs, yes my prize rose bushes...

Had rabbits in Ohio zone 5a and zone 5b,6a and have rabbits in zone 5b,6a in Pennsylvania. Always kept them outside seem to be more comfortable that way and being cooler could breed them all times of the year. Just keep drafts down in the winter and lots of hay and they seem to do great.

I know the feeling, have butchered cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, and rabbits, and have a rooster to do today and have still put it off. The only time i really never regretted the taking of a life was when I had a rooster that got loose when I was going to set up to take...

i had a dalmation cross and an aussie purebred, both killed the dalmation was his nature aussie was for sport. Broke both of them. The dalmation became the best groundhog dog wiping out 76 in one summer and never would even look at my geese, ducks, guienies, quail, or chickens, after the...

I don't have either of the large breeds but do have cows, goats and many other live stock. I live on a farmette of 7.75 acres nestled in tbe heart area of 400 acres. My animals roam at least 10 to 15 acres. The dogs i use are a pair of Australian shepherds. They keep the 14 or more coyotes that...

I once had mutton at a friend's cook over he took the leg roast snd slow cooked it over an open fire, with just salt, pepper, and garlic to taste. It was the brst I had eber had, juicey and tasty. It was great.

I prefer olive oil, but a humorous item to use especially on lice and fleas is salad dressing, the oil kills the adults by suffication, and the vinegar cuts the egg cases. Never used on mites but may have to try it. I'm located in NW PA looking for a 10 month old buck or older New Zealand White...

As a child, we worked with a team of Belgium horses, usually mares. Every now and then we would have geldings on the farm. Once grandda raised a stud from a colt and had him for 2 years. We did have stud small shetland ponies and found the more work/busy they are, pulling carts, hay loads, tree...

Dealing with bucks, i may sound inhuman but in my book a good buck is a chained buck, great brush trimmers, acrage clearer, but always on a chain, with a halter, and a collar but the halter on a buck demands obedience. Although i only have 2 doe at the present i plan on trading a jersey cow for...

Sorry but I still enjoy the old box phones on the wall with the crank. Agnus knew every buddies business back then but gee, you say something to a friend now a days and an add comes up for you to buy something you just talked about. And who knows whose listening in.

My chickens are free ranged also and eat their choice of what's available. For the winter if time I dry my grass clippings and they love it, having problems with nesting though, hens get in and eat the hay, straw, or what ever i put in even when free ranging, even tried dried morning glory vine...

I feed mine dry, trying to buy non gmo from amish in the area, got to be careful though you can be told anything for a sale sometimes. I'm looking to the future for spring stock need 3 new zealand white does breeding age, 1 hampshire boar 3 mos, 2 large black gilts 3 mos, 3 dorset ewes, 4 Dec or...

I understand, my boar is a hampshire and gilts are berkshire/yorkshire cross and over 300 lbs they start layering the lard thats when i just feed corn and weeds through the fall. Have considered the large black how are they for taste that big.

I'm sure by now you have the answer to your question. But may I add a few examples of experiences as a lad. As children my cousin and I raise rabbits, there was an unspoken rivalry present in the situation. My cousin had a 6 x 8 coop where he would group all his males and leave them up to 6...