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<blockquote data-quote="VCC" data-source="post: 1034967" data-attributes="member: 6399"><p>I think the average for county fair pigs is around $200 (I was told that they have some tough hog show in Texas) there are those that spend allot more. We raised a couple litters over the years and sold pig to the kids for fair, charged 150 each and had several class winners but never anything go further than that. Did have 3 pigs end up 1,2,3, in a class of 18. I did it to help the kids, by the time you pay for 3 doses of $75 semen and feed and medication you don't make much, if any. My boys had to help deliver, clip teeth, and castrate so the lessons were worth it. They each got to pick a pig out and raise it for the fair, the money they made from those pigs is what got them their first steers to show. (we always had buyers lined up for the hogs)</p><p>I think the feed plays a bigger part in the pigs muscled up appearance; raise them on commercial feed and they would not look the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VCC, post: 1034967, member: 6399"] I think the average for county fair pigs is around $200 (I was told that they have some tough hog show in Texas) there are those that spend allot more. We raised a couple litters over the years and sold pig to the kids for fair, charged 150 each and had several class winners but never anything go further than that. Did have 3 pigs end up 1,2,3, in a class of 18. I did it to help the kids, by the time you pay for 3 doses of $75 semen and feed and medication you don’t make much, if any. My boys had to help deliver, clip teeth, and castrate so the lessons were worth it. They each got to pick a pig out and raise it for the fair, the money they made from those pigs is what got them their first steers to show. (we always had buyers lined up for the hogs) I think the feed plays a bigger part in the pigs muscled up appearance; raise them on commercial feed and they would not look the same. [/QUOTE]
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