Baymule's Pigs 2017-2018

readers digest version-gibberella is a fungus that puts off toxins that a hog will not eat. They will have feed but squeal for different feed. Better than fusarium as they will eat that and throw it up and never settle.

DDG are what is left after alcohol is made from corn. It's then used in feed. Dry distillers grain. It concentrates good and bad in corn.

I thought corn and other grains were good for hogs. I used to buy corn and oats from a local grain elevator that weighed my truck before and afterwards. I filled them in used horse grain bags, 50 lbs., then emptied the grain into my metal trash cans. There was dust, but I fed outdoors, so it didn't matter. Could that help?

seedcorn said:

readers digest version-gibberella is a fungus that puts off toxins that a hog will not eat. They will have feed but squeal for different feed. Better than fusarium as they will eat that and throw it up and never settle.

DDG are what is left after alcohol is made from corn. It's then used in feed. Dry distillers grain. It concentrates good and bad in corn.

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Thanks for the explanation. I just put it down to them being fed corn all their lives and no pellets. They like their whey soaked corn!

Corn is a starch. Starch adds fat. Fat makes birth harder.

Hogs love corn-especially flavored with whey.

Slaughter date is November 6, counting down. We made the decision not to keep the sow, we are not set up to farrow a sow in winter. She is showing heat and has a real bad attitude. She has tried to bite me a couple times and I walloped her with a shovel. I don't go in there any more than I have to. I wait until the heat of the day when they are laid up asleep to retrieve their feed pans. Sometimes I just throw down a flake of hay and pour their corn over that. They eat the hay too. I lost their water trough for 3 days, I couldn't see it anywhere and without a line of sight to run in and get it, not happening. I finally saw it up against the outside fence and was able to go out the front gate and around to get it. Lucky for them that they have dug pig ponds that I can fill with water.

If she is this mean now, she will be a 400 pound holy terror if she farrows. So we'll just pack them both in the freezer, we have a half hog sold to 2 different families which will make us a little money on this deal. Not too bad.

I am going to rethink my pig raising. I will continue to buy and raise feeder pigs. I am going to build a dedicated hog pen with a better watering system. The feed bin feeder I have for the feeder pigs will continue to work, but I didn't use it for these wrecking machines we have now. I'm not going to put them in one of my pastures as we work too hard for pigs to root it up. Where ever I put the pen, it will have back up the trailer access, kinda hard to do when we have so many trees. But I'll figure it out.

9 more days......

baymule said:

Slaughter date is November 6, counting down. We made the decision not to keep the sow, we are not set up to farrow a sow in winter. She is showing heat and has a real bad attitude. She has tried to bite me a couple times and I walloped her with a shovel. I don't go in there any more than I have to.

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Wise choice, a pig, even a small one, can do a lot of damage. It is scarey how amazingly strong they are. Keep safe, enjoy that BBQ!

I don't blame you I have no patience for any animal that bites the hand that feeds it. My parrot is lucky doesn't apply to her, belonging to my brother.

Mean animals around here become supper. Every time our 2 year old grand daughter comes over, she wants "mean rooster" soup! She went with me to feed the pigs today. I asked her if she liked bacon. "I do!" I asked her if she liked pork chops. "Yes I do like pork chops." Well, that's where they come from and we're gonna eat the pigs!

If you are going to eat the boar, make him into some kind of spiced sausage or band him now.

Oh, banding a big boar sounds slightly horrifying! What if he's disagreeable to the idea that day?

Bay! If you band that big ol' boar give Seed a call, he's volunteered to do it for you! Right @seedcorn ? And video it! Nothing as entertaining as pig wrasslin"!