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RE: Prepping for Piglets

in #homesteading6 years ago

I have wanted to drive up and get some hogs from sugar mountain. I was able to find some pure old spots local but they are not easy to find. We love them and also do large blacks and red wattle hogs. I run high tensile electric for my hogs now but for the last 5 years I have been using pallets to build large pens for them. Even my very large hogs do fine in these and even better it was free. You are right about pigs being very easy to raise and they are also very clean compared to chickens or goats. Hogs will respect the electric fence enough that it is hard to move them from one padlock to the next because they don't want to walk threw the gate that has popped them some many times. Loved seeing the old spots and hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

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Last year was the first time we had purebred GOS. Pigs prior have been crossbreds. We will have GOS again this year, but from a different breeder. The old one sold the entire herd. They were pretty good pigs, good temperament, put on good weight, but got a bit pushy about food towards the end.

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