Trying something new

[Little Joe]

Built me a 5'x12' pig tractor with a 3 sided shed on one end that is a 5'x5'. Got a couple shoats, Hereford and large black cross. I'm rotating it around my garden spots.

 

[Little Joe]

I have a neighbor (5 miles away but I consider that a neighbor) who owns milk route trucks, I'm getting 4-6 of those plastic milk crates full of spoiled milk from him a week to mix with my pig's feed. Pretty good deal. I've cut back on how much I feed my dogs too and are giving them some of the milk that isn't spoiled but out of date.

 

[kenny thomas]

They should grow very good with the milk. Good looking pigs

 

[Rafter S]

I have a neighbor (5 miles away but I consider that a neighbor) who owns milk route trucks, I'm getting 4-6 of those plastic milk crates full of spoiled milk from him a week to mix with my pig's feed. Pretty good deal. I've cut back on how much I feed my dogs too and are giving them some of the milk that isn't spoiled but out of date.

We had several dairies close by when I was a boy, and my father would get milk from them that they couldn't sell. We'd put it in a barrel, and then dip it out to feed to the hogs.

A time or two I'd forget to put the lid on it and a chicken would fly up to the top, think she could step out onto the milk, and fall in and start thrashing around. I'd have to go get her out.

Being covered with sour milk is a smell you don't forget real soon.

 

[50/50Farms]

RIP Pebbles Evelyn Thick Momma, you were a good pig.

 

[Little Joe]

Update:
Took pigs to butcher March 20, hanging weight of 158 and 160 at 6 months old. Butchered a little sooner than I'd planned because I figured out one of them got missed when cutting and didn't want him old enough to have to worry about boar taint.