Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Wonder how long I have to keep them, going to be hell to try and winter them over. I want some big heavy ones to make sure it's well packed.

Get them in the spring, keep until winter. Feed soured corn, it puts some tasty meat on them. Is there anyone that would buy a hog from you?

I used to buy feeder pigs, I lined Red Wattle and Hereford Hogs the best. I had them slaughtered around 10 months. But you don’t have 10 months, so I would recommend a more modern breed like Yorkshire or Hampshire.

Maybe you could find a big boar that someone is getting rid of. You can usually get them pretty cheap. Away from sows, their hormones settle down. Feed the boar alfalfa hay for roughage, greens from garden, leaves, grass hay and soured corn in buttermilk.

Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

I found a deal on a huge boar. His name is Wilbur and he is a Red Wattle. He got too big to breed their sows, so he went up for sale. The lady who owned him couldn’t put him in the freezer, he was her first pig and a pet. He is very calm and gentle. But she became afraid of Wilbur because he...

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[Baymule]

In from doing chores. Gate is open on Coopers pen, gates are open for ewes and lambs to go to the front field, but sheep are holed up in their shelters. Right now, they prefer the mud to the rain. Anatolians are in the front yard, on the porch. Carson is in the house. They are all tired of the pounding rain, slop and mud.

I took this at 8:45 AM. Almost 3 inches, still raining, I’m sure it’s 3” by now.

 

[Baymule]

That makes 8” since Sunday night at 9:00. That’s a span of 36 hours.

 

[canesisters]

I can't imagine!!! I'd be in deep if we got that here.

 

[Weldman]

Get them in the spring, keep until winter. Feed soured corn, it puts some tasty meat on them. Is there anyone that would buy a hog from you?

I used to buy feeder pigs, I lined Red Wattle and Hereford Hogs the best. I had them slaughtered around 10 months. But you don’t have 10 months, so I would recommend a more modern breed like Yorkshire or Hampshire.

Maybe you could find a big boar that someone is getting rid of. You can usually get them pretty cheap. Away from sows, their hormones settle down. Feed the boar alfalfa hay for roughage, greens from garden, leaves, grass hay and soured corn in buttermilk.

Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

I found a deal on a huge boar. His name is Wilbur and he is a Red Wattle. He got too big to breed their sows, so he went up for sale. The lady who owned him couldn’t put him in the freezer, he was her first pig and a pet. He is very calm and gentle. But she became afraid of Wilbur because he...

www.backyardherds.com

I'm sure if I give the hog away for next to nothing or slaughtered it and sold the meat for next to nothing a lot would buy them or the meat. Anything is cheaper then paying for bentonite that may or may not work or buying a compactor that may or may not work. Not a fan of pork too much, too much salt in them mostly.
Found a FB group on this side of Montana, about $150 a pig, even at 10 pigs plus the cost of food for what they eat even if I just put them all in the freezer I would still come out cheaper than anything to pack a pond of this size down.

 

[Baymule]

I'm sure if I give the hog away for next to nothing or slaughtered it and sold the meat for next to nothing a lot would buy them or the meat. Anything is cheaper then paying for bentonite that may or may not work or buying a compactor that may or may not work. Not a fan of pork too much, too much salt in them mostly.
Found a FB group on this side of Montana, about $150 a pig, even at 10 pigs plus the cost of food for what they eat even if I just put them all in the freezer I would still come out cheaper than anything to pack a pond of this size down.

What size of pond, does it have water in it now and what type of soil? Pictures?

 

[Baymule]

I just took big fluffy towels to the Anatolians. Sentry happily immediately sat on his. Sheba had taken Carson’s bed, but gave it up for the dry fluffy towel. Buford, undecided, wagged his tail, grinning, sniffed the more than soggy Carson bed and laid on the wood deck. At least it has a cover so they aren’t pounded by the rain.

All animals seem to be at the Screw this, I quit.

 

[Weldman]

What size of pond, does it have water in it now and what type of soil? Pictures?

Nope no water in it now, it gets about 4 inches and starts draining within 96 hours it's empty. Here is what it looks like, I never finished it since I blew a seal on torque converter, need to get the machine in the pole barn to replace it or use my excavator to finish it up. Soil is mostly clay, notices the hills surround it is what will fill it up. I will take the dirt and build my house pad with it. Going really deep retain more from evaporation.

 

[Baymule]

You would need a good fence around it and ideally, a 3 sided shelter to protect from the elements. Mostly clay? Totally doable.

 

[Weldman]

You would need a good fence around it and ideally, a 3 sided shelter to protect from the elements. Mostly clay? Totally doable.

Thought about digging a spot out and put a shelter down then bury it with a opening facing to the southeast, natural insulation from the elements.