Raising Pigs for Meat – Why You Should Have a Pig

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by bonnie | raising livestock

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let's look at some reasons why you should be raising your own pork

we live on a acre wooded lot

pigs on the other hand only require feet

these are just base costs. a longer grow out time also means an increased risk

commercial meat pigs grow rapidly

the average steer is butchered at months old. if you're raising a weaned calf

raise a piglet every months and you'll have more pork than you know what to do with

final yield of a meat pig

you still get those things back from the butcher

pigs have an average dressing ratio of

that's of pork on a hog you may have fed

i also like to get the extra bones and fat back from the butcher

even if the food has started to mold

i know some people who make their pig's diet out of scraps

first of all

another unexpected benefit to feeding rotten vegetables to pigs is the volunteer vegetable plants

all of the tomato plants in my garden this year have come from pig manure. we also have a papaya tree because we fed papaya to the pigs

hubby tried fertilizing the onions

i've joked that i'm going to feed my vegetable seeds to the pigs one year because they seem to get the best germination rate

they don't have the health issues that a lot of meat animals may experience

pig can provide approximately 40 lbs of pork

the meat also preserves through curing and smoking

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the only things i really cared to know pigs were that they destroyed everything and smelled horrible

so it really came as a surprise to me more than anyone when i agreed to raise a couple

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so after a lifetime of swearing off pig farming

we want to raise most

space requirements

granted

it's up to you to determine the balance that's right

initial cost of a piglet

here in central florida

pigs are resilient

even those times when they have been sick

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pigs reduce waste

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we survive on leftovers. i generally try to use up all of our leftovers before they go bad

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i prefer to have a higher turn over so i make room

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