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If you loose him, you could be 50+ little cute piggies early summer 😖😱. Ready for that?
Yes I am, now doing that in the winter, hell no! Three months, three weeks and three days would be perfect timing for around June/July.
When are you going to slaughter one of those? Pork chops?
Soon as the ground dries up enough to pick his corpse up without sliding machinery around.
 

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Yes, kill the one/ones that have not performed...
Probably should have gotten the boar in there a month ago... so pigs are grown more by the time it gets cold around there in the fall so you can get them sold... Should get them on the ground, up there, I would think by the middle of May ..... Get them bred now , because you are looking at them only being 4 months by the time you start getting cold in Nov.... and you know how much they eat when it is cold trying to grow and keep up their body heat since they don't get a "winter coat" like cows, horses, sheep, etc.....
 

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Yes, kill the one/ones that have not performed...
Probably should have gotten the boar in there a month ago... so pigs are grown more by the time it gets cold around there in the fall so you can get them sold... Should get them on the ground, up there, I would think by the middle of May ..... Get them bred now , because you are looking at them only being 4 months by the time you start getting cold in Nov.... and you know how much they eat when it is cold trying to grow and keep up their body heat since they don't get a "winter coat" like cows, horses, sheep, etc.....
It is actually this month and next month when I see all the piglets hit the market here. It's weird that they do carry them through the winter.
 

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When you say piglets hitting the market... how big are they??? If they are 8-12 weeks old, 20-40 lbs... then that is about right for here also... people want them in early spring, to get them grown out to kill in late fall... Thanksgiving is "traditional" for hog killing... into Dec... so they have 6-8 months to hit the 250 +/- pound size... and not feed growing hogs through the winter... If they are 50-100 lbs then they are farrowing in Oct/Nov.. and feeding lactating sows through that cold...
We do not get the extreme cold or the extended periods of cold like you do... I would not want to be farrowing sows in the winter there...🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️ but the biggest demand for piglets to feed out is in Mar/early Apr.... like you...
 

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