skyhightree1":26iiphav said:
jltrent":26iiphav said:
I had three sows a few years ago and if you want them to grow as you said "Gotta keep the feed in front of them". I really enjoyed raising the pigs, but a lot of work and short on time then and prices were low. A guy came and looked at them from Harlan Kentucky and I sold them all to him. I had a nice home built 3 point hitch crate for the back of my tractor that you could run/lure the hogs in and raise them off the ground and load in a trailer. I sold it also. One of these days I am going to build me another chicken house and hog house and raise some more.
Nice what breed did you have?
I had two Hampshires and one Duroc Sow and a neighbor had a Poland China boar that I would breed them to. Those Duroc's will sure get fat, but when they got fat seems they didn't have as many pigs. The Hampshires would have a lot more pigs. I have had them to lay on them and kill them, their tail froze off when they were born in cold weather, etc. etc. a lot of work.....Those Hampshire when they had pigs could get pretty mean.