If you want a pet pig that will stay smaller get a pot bellied pig or smaller yet a mini pig. The difference in weight is from the parts you don't keep like intestines, skin and head. Feed for your feeder pigs will be available at most any farm store. Buy healthy, spunky feeder pigs. Additional information is available in this support article. Honestly, it's not that hard. Start your pigs on a 16% feed.
Call the auction and see what they can set up for you. Most people would be butchering around the 250 pound mark, for a nice balance between fat cover and good size cuts of meat. This will make the transition to your farm easier on the pig. 5-5 months from feeder pig size. Ready to get your first feeder pigs yet not really sure what to do? Important Note: Have all of your supplies laid out and ready before you start dealing with the pig. Great question, actually! As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. They grow fairly quickly and yield quite a bit of meat for your efforts. First off you will need to kill the pig, no surprise there! Can I keep a feeder pig in my yard? There are a few reasons this might happen: - You're a power user moving through this website with super-human speed. Your pigs should have feed and water at all times. Feeder pigs can be purchased from a local small farmer, online ads or an auction.
Feeder pig prices are higher in the spring. Best Breed Of Pigs For Beginners goes into more detail about why some breeds are easier to raise than others. We like 300+ pounders, so we plan on the pigs taking longer, more like 4. It is more time consuming to sell pigs to individuals, so the pigs are priced accordingly. Any stressful conditions including weather like a crazy hot spell or a super cold snap will effect the comfort and therefore the growth of your pigs. They should be spunky, well grown and not have any obvious health problems. You can plan on spending $50 per feeder pig at an auction. Have these pigs been outside or kept inside? Consider reading my article The Cheapest Meat Animal To Raise where I list out a comparison of common meat animals and see how a feeder pigs compares on total cost and price per pound of meat. Fair pig buyers tend to raise the prices of all feeder pigs at the auction simply because of increased demand equals a higher price. Everyone seems to have their favorite choice or is excited to try out for themselves a breed they read about online.
Prices will change, sometimes drastically change, with the seasons and the current demand. If you decide to go to an auction get there early so you have time to look around. If you have deer hunting experience then no problem-you've got this. If the only pig farms in your area are CAFO's (confinement farms), not those. You'll need to have a top price that you are willing to pay and a pen ready for the pigs when the hauler brings them, if you are not picking them up yourself. When your pigs are stressed it will take them longer to reach their finished weight. Purchasing your first feeder pigs from the farmer will give you a good idea of how he raises his pigs so you will know what your pig is used to. Yes, you can butcher your pigs at home! Now that we have home butchered both pigs and cattle, we are wondering why it took us this long to try this at home! Pigs love snacks like hay and garden scraps.
Keep their feeder full. The skinning, if you are doing it, needs to be done immediately. You'll get 120 pounds of meat from a 250 pound pig. Feeder pigs take 4 months to finish. In our area the prices for feeder pigs are highest in the spring when all the kids are buying pigs to take to the county fair. Once you start cutting up the carcass into freezer ready pieces you will lose a bit more weight in trim and oddments that you don't want to keep, resulting in 120 pounds of meat. Yes but be aware that the adult size of a farm pig is 500 plus pounds. You determine the ideal finishing weight. The final weight you are shooting for here is 250 pounds. Feeder pig prices will vary. I just sold a few market hogs that were over 300 pounds, 305 to be exact. Which breed of feeder pig is best? A third-party browser plugin, such as Ghostery or NoScript, is preventing JavaScript from running.
So from a 250 pound pig you can plan on getting a 180 pound carcass. We have weekly livestock auctions in our area so this is the easiest choice for us. These extras should not replace the ground feed, but can add interest to the diet and keep your porkers happy. If you can't attend the auction and are not overly picky about what you get, the auction has a buyer that can bid for you. Buy at least two feeder pigs. Check out the local auction reports for the current prices in your area so you can know what to expect to pay. After completing the CAPTCHA below, you will immediately regain access to the site again. We use the loader on our tractor by attaching the pig to a chain once it has bled out.
22 because that is convenient for us, use whatever is most comfortable for you. This is an average number, so specialty breeds will vary with a fatter pig will yielding less and a wider, meatier pig will yield more. Buy feeder pigs from a farm, if you can. Where to get a feeder pig.
To regain access, please make sure that cookies and JavaScript are enabled before reloading the page. Pardon Our Interruption. This is for an three month old or so cross bred pig. Both choices have advantages and disadvantages. Comfortable pigs will gain weight faster. When I write local pig farm, I mean hands on family farmer, not an industrial pork production facility that happens to be close to your house. The main point here is you get to choose.
The specific cross doesn't matter but you'll be best served by getting pigs that other people are growing in your area. My husband is a deer hunter and we had been processing our own poultry for years, so this was the next big step for us.
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