Ridgetop
Herd Master
I am not overly fond of pork although DH and family like pork chips. I stew pork chunks in green salsa and like that. The kids used to raise Poland Spot hogs for a couple years they raised them on corn soured in goat milk - they marbled and were tender. We never won grand champion at the fair because they did not approach the desired leanness, but we had buyers for our hogs. After we stopped raising them, we didn't buy much pork except ham and bacon until I bought a Berkshire pig several years ago supposedly raised on goat milk, corn and pasture and it was still too lean.Like all pigs, they do root.
I am considering getting a weaner pig and letting it root the garden when the veggies are finished. Then it can go for pork. It should turn up the roots and leave the soil ready to plow for the spring garden. The drawback is that we don't have any dairy goats anymore for the goat milk. We used 5 gallon buckets, poured in about 5-6 lbs. of rolled corn, and filled the bucket with goat milk. Let it stand overnight for the morning feed and all day for the night feed.
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