A pig board is a square made out of wood, plastic, metal with 2 or more holes cut in the top for hand holds
And you use it to move pigs around
A walker is like a square cage with no top or bottom and handles on ether side and to use it tales two people on ether side lift it up over pig
Then you...
Whether there raising swine for meat or pets. People like to know what stuff they need to have when starting out. And if they look at some one that raises swine and they have cabinets full of stuff and equipment just every were.
And that might look like theres alot of things they need to buy.but...
I wish I could help but your question
Is out of my experience level.
My miniature pig experience is zero
And I have never encountered that proplem in my market pigs before.
Someone else might see your thread that has more experience with minies also you might want to ask the vet you talked to...
"I think chicken feed is going up all over the country because they are hoping to profit from the increase in backyarders, but maybe that's just my paranoia ;)"
That you might be on to something
My feed store stopped getting kruse lay mash instead kruse sent them their new line of Helen's best...
have they gone up due to the drought or down because of good harvests
I cant say for my area for pig feed the price went down from when I had pigs last march-july
it was 19.00 now its 18.75 and for chicken it went up a dollar from 18.00 to 19.00
im hoping pig feed goes down this year so I can...
I have used both but cant really tell if it does anything as far as weight gain goes
I think hand feeding with added water to make a mush increase appetite because they don't need to stop eating to drink. but it seems to but the weight on faster. then my friends who use dry feed in a...
well just like the title says what do you use to treat or control scours.because as we all know pigs get scours often do to a lot of different things. and we all have a go to product that we use and possibly we can learn and even find something that's better or easer to use.
I well go first for...
im not sure about what to use directly on a pig. but using a spray that has Permethrin In it will kill all the pests in and around her pen area. and you might be able to use on animals but read bottle first. and to tell you the truth I rarely have problems with fleas on my pigs.
yeah but he's drinking and eating which usually means they will pull through and if the calf dies
you have the piece of mind knowing what killed it and not to sound harsh about the calf dying part but when my livestock die it always makes me feel a little better knowing what went wrong and what...
I am going to raise a lamb this March for FFA and I am going to show It but I more want it for meat and I want to get it big and meaty. So my question is how should I feed it and exercise it to achieve my goal also witch is better male or female lambs
Well it looks to be a X between alot of breeds because the brown ones the white looks like Herefords and the one you were holding looks to be a duroc and the white piglets look. Like yorks so it seems that both boar and sow are X so yep so no idea what it would be called . Did it say on your...
Also if your local feed store doesn't
Carry pig feed. But the feed company that they buy from does make pig feed ask your feed store if they can special order it for you
It might cost more depending on the feed store and I would order 2bags at a time just in case and like sumi said you will...
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