Almost ready

Spent all day prepping the farrowing room for the pigs that are due starting next weekend. Installed a new heater and pressure washed the whole place. A few more odds and ends to finish up the next couple days and we should be in business.

Looks mighty clean in there!

I used to work in a farrowing barn. All that crap on the sides of every stall would have been unacceptable. Lol

Nice set up to

Very nice set up. How many sows do you have? Breed?

I have 2 farrowing in the next couple weeks and 2 more in a month. No farrowing crates yet, just using Smidley farrowing huts.

Looks like a nice set up.

I have only 7 right now, not nearly enough to justify the money spent building this farrowing room. I have 6 crates on the left and 6 weaning pens on the right. Manure pits with pit scrapers and pit fans under both.

I would like to get back up to 10 or 12. Two of the ones I have now I cannot get to breed, can't even catch them in heat. I do pure bred Duroc along with cross breeds of several varieties. Mostly Hampshire crosses although I picked up a pure bred Yorkshire recently

Do you sell feeders or do you finish them out yourself? If selling feeders what do you think they will sell for.

Im think I should buy some feeders and finish 6 to 8 of them. Start in late spring and will be ready to butcher early Nov. I like big hog 300 to 350 lbs. Fat equals flavor.