Cornish Heritage
Ridin' The Range
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LOL! People do train their pigs. We were talking to a guy the other day that has a Large Black boar (we raise Large Blacks.) His boar is 6 mths old & he has it trained on a leash & to give him his paw!
HOWEVER that is highly unusual. Remember when you pick up these piglets they will be scared to death of you. You have to allow them to warm up to you gradually & if you are going to eat them for goodness sake give them meat names & constantly tell yourself that in a few months they will be sausage & bacon. What we do when we wean piglets here (we raise around 30 litters a year) is put them in a small area that they cannot get out of with one strand of polywire around the front to teach them what it is. We leave them in this enclosure (moving it everyday to fresh pasture) for 2-3 days. After that we graduate them to electric netting putting 2 in at once. If you put only one in, it will panic & run right through! (Been there, done that!) They stay behind electric netting until they are 4-6 mths of age, depending on size & then from there they graduate to 3 rows of polywire. This system works well for us.
Liz
HOWEVER that is highly unusual. Remember when you pick up these piglets they will be scared to death of you. You have to allow them to warm up to you gradually & if you are going to eat them for goodness sake give them meat names & constantly tell yourself that in a few months they will be sausage & bacon. What we do when we wean piglets here (we raise around 30 litters a year) is put them in a small area that they cannot get out of with one strand of polywire around the front to teach them what it is. We leave them in this enclosure (moving it everyday to fresh pasture) for 2-3 days. After that we graduate them to electric netting putting 2 in at once. If you put only one in, it will panic & run right through! (Been there, done that!) They stay behind electric netting until they are 4-6 mths of age, depending on size & then from there they graduate to 3 rows of polywire. This system works well for us.
Liz