Re: Butcher pigs
[Re: KYtrapper2005]
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01/18/21 10:53 PM
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we bought 300lb hogs in may had a kill date six weeks later. all we fed was corn to keep weight up. they weighed 333lbs when we took them in What did they get fattened up on? Ya know?
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Re: Butcher pigs
[Re: furstroker]
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01/18/21 11:00 PM
01/18/21 11:00 PM
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we bought 300lb hogs in may had a kill date six weeks later. all we fed was corn to keep weight up. they weighed 333lbs when we took them in What did they get fattened up on? Ya know? I assume it was on the 40lbs of corn they got every day.
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Re: Butcher pigs
[Re: Michael Lippold]
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01/18/21 11:02 PM
01/18/21 11:02 PM
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It seems most people here look at one thing cost. If you are looking at cost you are not looking at what goes into your pig which goes into you. A pig that is raised on dirt will have many more minerals available to him than a pig on concrete. Pigs on dirt do not need iron shots! Pigs on dirt will root and find other things to eat which will make them healthier. If a person ate one do all food he would be lacking many minerals and vitamins thats why we take supplements ie vitamins. If you could move your pigs every now and ten you could also clear some brush. On our farm we call the short leg goats. And then if your just looking at cost look at cost it's ok.
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Re: Butcher pigs
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01/18/21 11:11 PM
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It seems most people here look at one thing cost. If you are looking at cost you are not looking at what goes into your pig which goes into you. A pig that is raised on dirt will have many more minerals available to him than a pig on concrete. Pigs on dirt do not need iron shots! Pigs on dirt will root and find other things to eat which will make them healthier. If a person ate one do all food he would be lacking many minerals and vitamins thats why we take supplements ie vitamins. If you could move your pigs every now and ten you could also clear some brush. On our farm we call the short leg goats. And then if your just looking at cost look at cost it's ok. Young pigs fed well, good rooting, and grain fed. Best there is.
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Re: Butcher pigs
[Re: Michael Lippold]
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01/18/21 11:12 PM
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The people we got them from raised cattle and they found the pigs cheap and had like 150 of them or so. We bought them to be 300lb. They had to be smaller because they grew quite a bit and were only 330lb. They taste good! Fed corn and a little hay every now and then.
Trapping is what built North America, why take that away?
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Re: Butcher pigs
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01/18/21 11:14 PM
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The people we got them from raised cattle and they found the pigs cheap and had like 150 of them or so. We bought them to be 300lb. They had to be smaller because they grew quite a bit and were only 330lb. They taste good! Fed corn and a little hay every now and then. Amen bud. Im glad they done good for ya!
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Re: Butcher pigs
[Re: Michael Lippold]
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01/18/21 11:21 PM
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One was a boar lol. We didn’t notice because we were to worried about getting out with a it getting trampled by hogs. So we ended up with one hog (the other was my grandparents they don’t have a barn suitable for a pig.) they had names to. Pork chop, bacon (he was long I said that’s means more bacon), and hamlet.
Trapping is what built North America, why take that away?
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Re: Butcher pigs
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01/19/21 12:15 AM
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Best pork was spoke on a very recent post. Garbage fed hogs taste the same. All scrap crap equals poor weak meat. Grain fed with some sweets (apples and pears) and veggies and youre good. Ghetto feed equals ghetto taste. Edit...if you're doing it to survive, do what you gotta... Pigs are omnivorous. You will get a better healthier product if you feed them that way . They have a completely different fat ,a healthier fat if they have a varied diet . If you mean bread and pastries and chips you might have somthing . If you mean garden and table scraps I would disagree with you . I havnt seen anybody In a ghetto part of town slop hogs since I was a kid . They go down to Wal-Mart and buy their corn fed confinement floor pork like all the other city folk do .
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