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feeder pigs???

cleland

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I know this is not a hog forum...BUT... I have an Ai customer that has some feeder pigs for sale. They are about 150 I would guess. I have had them butchered before but never finished one my self. Does any one know anythimg about doing this? What should I feed, how long, how do I know when its ready?
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Jeff
 
feed them to about 230 lbs. feed a mix of corn and bean meal. going into fall be sure to keep a low level of Aeuromyacin in the feed to ward off lung troubles. probably a 14 - 16 % protien ration.

I am about 5'10" and I walk the pen, if the hog rubs my knuckles as I walk, it is generally ready to butcher.
 
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jigs said:
feed them to about 230 lbs. feed a mix of corn and bean meal. going into fall be sure to keep a low level of Aeuromyacin in the feed to ward off lung troubles. probably a 14 - 16 % protien ration.

I am about 5'10" and I walk the pen, if the hog rubs my knuckles as I walk, it is generally ready to butcher.

What sleeve length do you wear?

How deep was the mud? :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
We run hogs free range year round. We butcher at 240lbs. To know their weight put a string around their heart girth. 42" girth = 240lbs. Make a mark on the string with tape @ 42" - saves time.

We feed ours 50-50 blends of hammered barley and wheat, no meds whatsoever. In the final 3-4 weeks we cut out the wheat and go straight barley. Makes for outstanding pork when they get that as well as all the pasture they can eat.
 
cleland- if you live close to a town or go to town often you can get a lot of your hog food out of the dumpsters behind the grocery stores if you don't mind the funny looks from folks driving by as you rummage thru the dumpsters :wink: :lol:

I have a neighbor that hits them every day-- loads of lettuce, produce, outdated bakery goods, etc. that his kids feed to their hogs...
 
Oldtimer said:
cleland- if you live close to a town or go to town often you can get a lot of your hog food out of the dumpsters behind the grocery stores if you don't mind the funny looks from folks driving by as you rummage thru the dumpsters :wink: :lol:

I have a neighbor that hits them every day-- loads of lettuce, produce, outdated bakery goods, etc. that his kids feed to their hogs...

Highly illegal, at least in Nebraska. I know the USDA has folks going around here to restaurants, cafe's, steakhouses, drive-inns, etc., to make sure that no scrap food is being fed to hogs. They don't want this waste getting into the food chain.
 
loomixguy said:
Oldtimer said:
cleland- if you live close to a town or go to town often you can get a lot of your hog food out of the dumpsters behind the grocery stores if you don't mind the funny looks from folks driving by as you rummage thru the dumpsters :wink: :lol:

I have a neighbor that hits them every day-- loads of lettuce, produce, outdated bakery goods, etc. that his kids feed to their hogs...

Highly illegal, at least in Nebraska. I know the USDA has folks going around here to restaurants, cafe's, steakhouses, drive-inns, etc., to make sure that no scrap food is being fed to hogs. They don't want this waste getting into the food chain.

Thats meat products or restaurant scraps...Bakerys here even call folks up when they have lots of outdated bakery goods....One bad winter when all the deer and wild birds were flocked up starving, some folks were hauling pickup loads out and putting around in areas for them...

I saw on tv the other day where one feedlot was feeding outdated potato chips....
 

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