A very cooperative effort for sure. Needs the find a piece of ground with a bit of a slope.My question does he come with a ladder or foot stool to reach those cows ?
A very cooperative effort for sure. Needs the find a piece of ground with a bit of a slope.My question does he come with a ladder or foot stool to reach those cows ?
I've seen some huge boars... but I do believe that's the largest sow I've ever seen.View attachment 40124
I had to dig a hole with my skidsteer for the sow to stand in so a new young Reg. Hereford boar could breed my Polly Girl!! He wasn't gonna give up but he wasn't getting close.
Ole gal hasn't missed a meal .View attachment 40124
I had to dig a hole with my skidsteer for the sow to stand in so a new young Reg. Hereford boar could breed my Polly Girl!! He wasn't gonna give up but he wasn't getting close.
Catch em while their bedded down!My question does he come with a ladder or foot stool to reach those cows ?
Why would you keep a boar that huge? Was he so unusual that he was not easily replaced?My biggest ever boar weighed 1023lbs. That was at the slaughterhouse. They shot him and immediately hung him on their scale. I had him castrated almost 6 months prior. 1 testicle weighed 19lbs, the other was 23lbs. He was a true gentle giant. Hated getting rid of him.
My neighbor has been getting $3000 to $8000 on every single calf. Steers, bulls, and heifers. They run them through their online auction site. Absolutely blows me away. They have 25 to 30 a year. They also buy registered highland cows at a good discount, graze and get them bred to their bulls, then sell for stupid money. Quite a hustle they've found for themselves.Someone better grab em before they're gone. Won't last long at this bargain price.
My wife was getting $300-350 for 6 week old registered Hereford piglets, they sold to Utah, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and California. It was a pretty good gig for 6 years. She had adds with the cute neighbor kids, she's a marketing genius.The one I had, was a good breeder... gentle easy going on the sows. The biggest sow I had was over 600 when she got killed... but any 3-400 lb sow could handle the big boar because the weight is mostly just on the hind end and not for that long a period. If the sows had a minimum of 8 pigs, they paid for themselves, back then. Most of mine had 10-14 a litter. No crates... I kept sows that were careful mothers and had maybe 1-2 laid on pigs a year... mostly from 2 wanting the same place to farrow. At one time I had 12 sows....out on pasture and had several huts for them to farrow in, and in winter had a section of the barn that got divided when they were due and for a week or 2 kept them separate; and farrowed all months except June/early July, or in November... as feeder markets were not good in August or January. Feeder pig markets were of course best in Mar/Apr/May...
He dos that because he can and is a hobby farmer. There's nothing in his business plan about making money and to him, his truck isn't overly expensive, he likes itI'm as likely to make fun of a guy driving an overly expensive truck and pulling a trailer that cost as much as a house... when he's a hobby farmer.
Sorry looking IMHO....
24 years ago we had a colt we raised with a cutting trainer. We did ok with him, Got our entry fees back plus some. Sold enough stud fees to pay for the training. Gelded him when I got tired of dealing with a dam studhorse.I'm as likely to make fun of a guy driving an overly expensive truck and pulling a trailer that cost as much as a house... when he's a hobby farmer.