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15 Feb ’12
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call a local feed store and ask them how much 50 pound bags of pig and sow are, you will need about 7-800 pounds of feed to bring them up to 250-275 pounds. I would recommend giving them medicated piglet feed for the first couple bags to keep pneumonia in check, we almost lost one of our first piglets several years ago to it, giving them penicillin shots was not fun
15 Feb ’12
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I came across this barrel waterer that would be pretty cheap to make
http://backyardranch.....terers.htm
just need a barrel and this
5 Mar ’12
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That looks like an easy setup. People are trying to scare me away from pigs out here -- the amount of feed, how long it would take them to turn over our land into good soil (~5 years) etc. I think I am getting the wrong advice -- because I would only have them for a few months before butchering.
15 Feb ’12
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this picture was taken june 3rd right before I released them into their pasture
this was july 11th
15 Feb ’12
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I forgot to say 50x50 is plenty big
5 Mar ’12
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That pen looks big itself -- how large is it? How much do you think it cost to fence it in?
I am thinking I should make 2 fenced in areas to rotate them through the summer. I think a benefit to the meat would be the leveling they could do to some of my forest areas.
15 Feb ’12
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I think it's like 60x120, fencing will run you a couple hundred, you can use pallets if you want, how much was the fencing for your garden? That would be perfect, build 2 like you have, rotate them through that this year, plant in them both next year
5 Mar ’12
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That garden was ridiculously expensive. Like ~$800. Hidden in those costs are the raised beds, mulch, etc. but it would be cost prohibitive to do in a larger setting.
I don't really plan to grow anything in the areas the pigs are knocking down -- more clear it for more open space for future animal pens. The areas I want them to clear are on the edges of our field and get shaded at various parts of the day.
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