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Yeah, have had fun with chickens and now the pigs. V2.1 time will tell if they eat the knot off the end of the rope. :lol: lowered raised to fill raised

Feeder v2 v1 was just not working great. They pushed it off the stand almost every day. The bottom just touches the ground, which is dug out maybe 4-5". I'll probably add a rope from the center front to be able to pull it up to the fence to fill. Also thinking about cutting two half moon...

work in progress. They like to put their front feet in it, and if it's close to empty, they're pushing it off the stand. It's a 55 gal heavy-duty plastic barrel. Since this pic, I've buried the base half-way. I've got it positioned where I can spin the barrel on the stand and pour feed in, then...

I'd like to rotate, but I'm having a hard time trusting only electric fence. That, and most of my place is woods on a hillside, so it's tougher to lay out. So, I'm going to have to muck out some. I've got a compost pile just the other side of the end of the pen and will just toss it over the...

So, do you muck out the manure and then add carbon matter to a compost pile outside of the pen, or do you add the hay straight to the pen and muck out the resulting, um, "N-C casserole"? I have a 30 x 80 pen. We had a lot of rain this past week and well, yeah. I've only had my pigs 2 weeks. We...

mine are also about 5 months and look about like yours. My pen is roughly 30 x 80, in the woods, though. We had a LOT of rain this past week, about 5-6 inches. This was after a 2.5" deluge one afternoon.

Does anybody feed only once a day? 2 x Black Giant/Hampshire x bout 60-70 lbs/almost 5 months old 30 x 80 pen. They've rooted everything that was edible in the pen. Feeding a local milled livestock blend 16% - smells like sorghum/molasses with a small amount of cracked corn. I've wanted to...

Noob here with new pigs. Mine weren't eating much dry, but chowed down when I wet it. They are still figuring out the auto-waterer, though.

Thanks, not quite as user friendly as I'd hoped. I can rotate it up from outside the fence, but the feed doesn't slide back as easy. Kinda hard to explain. Looked good on paper, lol.

Stays mostly dry. Time will tell.

supposed to be Large Black/Hamshire mix. I suspect they're just "black" pigs.

Howdy, Been running chickens for 3 years and just got my first 2 pigs on 3 acres. Looking forward to learning more. Tracker