Garden Farm

[Steve]

(18 March 2015, 22:44)Straight Shooter Wrote: They sound ideal for us Steve will check them out...what do you feed them through winter and or supplements through the year.

When they were young I fed them Farm Feeds Sow & Weaner, now they eat mostly grass and hay with a few Pig Finisher pellets to keep them used to coming into the barn when I call them. This will make it easier when it's "freezer time".

They have a good sized sty in the barn, but prefer to sleep on a big pile of hay in their paddock unless it's raining hard.

I looked at the economics of keeping pigs, and unless you can either grow their food or get it cheaply from a brewery / bakers / other then it's not really worth doing on a monetary basis. Of course, you can still do it for the skills and knowledge that you are eating humanely raised, pure meat.