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I know what you mean about smell, hogs have that ability. My pens are 6 x 6 with an outside area, and if i put 2 hogs in one pen it can get intense quick. How i learned that is when i was a young biology treacher one of my students wanted to show me his farm, the industry at the time was pushing...

Thanks for the advise, my boar was a hampshire, and used cross gilts, my preference is away from kune kune or American quinea hogs, since I'm supporting 4 families + people in need the larger, leaner hog goes farther. My butcher knows that when i come I'll ask for all lard i can get, and yes i...

Couple things to remember about pigs, yes they do discharge when in heat, secondly gilts, and sows have been known and on many occassions do go looking for a boar when in heat. A friend had a sow who un-benone to him got out of her pen, walked a mile to the boar, "had lunch", and when my friend...

The taste isn't much different, the butchers here in PA skin when butchering because they just fasten the skin to a wench and pull it off, I like and prefer scaulding but you need a crew and don't forget to share, that's why you raise 2.

As a child i was raised on an 80 acre clan farm, everyone a cousin. My dad would get a guilt and a shoat (we called castrated male pigs and so do the amish today). He would feed them 3 ears of corn each, table, and garden-threshing scraps and we pulled a bushel of weeds per pig from the garden...

I know alot of folks say butcher at 5-7 months, but a 5 month old pig can weigh 200 or 275, how do you know the weight. I use to as a youngster go to the auction and study the pigs i wanted my pigs to be as big as, then go home and see if my pigs looked like them. Hit and miss. So i started...

Hope my response reaches you, not sure how to use this system yet. Yes, many, I usually use one of three methods unless hunting, although I've seen 4 methods myself. First I give thanks to our creator for His provision and the life I'm about to take Than 1st method: with a very, very sharp knife...

I know your little lady should be healed by now. But something my mother taught me when around 8. If you have an infection and the animal can't rub the area or you can apply tape to it to hold it on apply a poltis of bread dipped in milk and plaster it on the area where open lesions are present...

I would suggest 8 mo., the more size on the doe better to carry large litters, cage size is great, i would suggest keeping grass hay in pens daily along with pellets, 18% if you can find them. I can't locally, so substitute, found a source for raw peanuts so am going to try them, as a child use...

Had problems with goats looking rough, not eating, suspected worms so gave herbal wormer to no avail, tried commercial, no avail. Read article about copper deficiecy so gave each goat 1/2 teaspoon of copper sulfate for 5 days and did it 3 times a year. Goats started eating better, coats cleared...

Have nz white and have a good network here in NW PA , if i can help let me know.

Grain rye seed but this year the feed store was out so check internet and it wouldnt get to me in time so i used ground bread rye on the cow. I'm thinking of planting a 2000 sq ft plot. Of non gmo this coming year. Should give me enough to last the year. Dad said could use it on all types of...

Thanks up grading barn just make another pen.

So sorry to hear about Samantha, having raised goats since i was 18, i have never seen a year like this. I'm 67. And although i was getting pretty cocky about my record after last year and this year I'm almost ready to fold. I have in the last 4 years always tied my bucks to protect and know...

Don't think stalls will hold up. And if you do you might have to build a new barn when done. Odor will be bad.Check various homesteading blogs or hog raiser videos. There are a lot of good and inexpensive huts out there that can be put together in a day for not much cash. Check with your local...