To get a pig or not to get a pig...

[Latestarter]

Time for some bargaining here... get 2 feeders, one for each of you. Tell the friend you'll buy them & keep them both at your place and his share will only cost the price of feed for both of them until slaughter and free slaughter help from his dad. I'd plan for getting them this spring so they'll have the 6-8 months to grow out and slaughter this coming fall/early winter. Hope you'll start a journal detailing out the journey (with pics of course ).

 

[Baymule]

If you have a garden area, you can plant turnips for them, they love turnips! Seed doesn't cost that much and you get a lot of turnips. They also love pumpkins and squash, both are easy to raise.

This is the portable shelter I built for my pigs. It has since been used for lambs too!

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/hawg-hut-or-goat-or-sheep-or-dhs-new-digs.32088/

 

[mystang89]

It would take 6 - 8 months to grow from 150lbs to 250lbs?

I think your suggestion sound good with free butcher and food for my getting the feeders and staying on my property!

 

[Latestarter]

No... at least I don't believe so... I was figuring 6-8 months for a 40 pounder to get to 300.

 

[Bruce]

but hang weight would be approx 193lbs.

"Approximately", yet detailed to 3 pounds

Butcher two and I could eat pork every night for a year with ease.

And that would be nearly 1 pound per night!

 

[misfitmorgan]

"Approximately", yet detailed to 3 pounds


And that would be nearly 1 pound per night!

Approx 193 because that is 30% removed but approximate because the pig will not likely be exactly 200, 250, etc and it can vary by breed etc.....and

 

[mystang89]

Thanks for all the info everyone! Hoping to get lucky and find some for sale around here on CL. Not sure about any Farmers or here but we'll see.