Pig pictures...

Probably something most in here haven't seen much, so here's a few pictures of raising pigs... Hope nobody minds me posting these here...

Babies, just after being born.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps79cdb504.jpg

Babies at about a month old

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...psb7833f1c.jpg

Boar and the girls before cleaning their pen on Friday. In the background are the babies in the above pictures, now 3 months old.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps8cdaee25.jpg

Pens after cleaning. Hole in the middle is to get to a water line that is leaking... PITA!!!

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps834bf09a.jpg

Pumping out the manure pits. Truck is a 56 F600, about 38,000 original miles, has hauled manure on this place since the early 70's. I bought it from the neighbor when we bought this place, he bought it from our house's original owner...

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...psbe9ba901.jpg

This is the farrowing room. Very well insulated, stays about 45-55 degrees with pigs in it without a heater, even at -10 outside. Cleaned up and ready for next litter. I do need to modify my panels a bit, bottom rail spacing is too big, babies can climb out... Have more babies expected in about a month.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps5f9b0ab1.jpg

The "babies" will be going to butcher in April, just over 6 months old. Anybody interested, have a posting in the "other sales" classification...

They look so delicious! Thanks for sharing.

Nothing like the smell of a full pit on a hot summer day. [Eek3] Thanks for sharing.

I think it's awesome and appreciate you sharing what you do! Now I want a baby pig.

Cool pics. I want a baby pig to, you think my home owners association would mind? [ROFL2]

Anything bacon-related is good to go around here....

It's amazing how quickly they grow. Thank you for sharing pictures- they look like fine, healthy pigs! Good job.

mmmm bacon....

Mmm ... all that future bacon ...

Green Chili on the hoof. Like a hippopotamus cute but deadly and smart.

Damn this brings back memories of my 4-H days!

Thanks for posting!

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Originally Posted by Ah Pook

Nothing like the smell of a full pit on a hot summer day. [Eek3] Thanks for sharing.

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Uh, yeah...that's a smell that can put you flat on your back...imagine the smell when mixing it!!!

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Originally Posted by GlockDog47

Cool pics. I want a baby pig to, you think my home owners association would mind? [ROFL2]

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Hey, it's worth a try! It might fly until they get to about 200 pounds...

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Originally Posted by TheGrey

It's amazing how quickly they grow. Thank you for sharing pictures- they look like fine, healthy pigs! Good job.

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Yep, the Duroc boar in the pictures is almost 10 months old... and 400 pounds or so... Babies will double in size in the first 7-10 days.

I detect a slight interest in bacon... I'm working on breeding to get 100% bacon out of a pig, but haven't perfected it yet...

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Originally Posted by ColoFarmer

I detect a slight interest in bacon... I'm working on breeding to get 100% bacon out of a pig, but haven't perfected it yet...

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Oh, it doesn't have to be 100% bacon. I love ham, pork tenderloin and tasty chops as well ... [Beer]

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Originally Posted by ColoFarmer

Probably something most in here haven't seen much, so here's a few pictures of raising pigs... Hope nobody minds me posting these here...

Babies, just after being born.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps79cdb504.jpg

Babies at about a month old

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...psb7833f1c.jpg

Boar and the girls before cleaning their pen on Friday. In the background are the babies in the above pictures, now 3 months old.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps8cdaee25.jpg

Pens after cleaning. Hole in the middle is to get to a water line that is leaking... PITA!!!

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps834bf09a.jpg

Pumping out the manure pits. Truck is a 56 F600, about 38,000 original miles, has hauled manure on this place since the early 70's. I bought it from the neighbor when we bought this place, he bought it from our house's original owner...

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...psbe9ba901.jpg

This is the farrowing room. Very well insulated, stays about 45-55 degrees with pigs in it without a heater, even at -10 outside. Cleaned up and ready for next litter. I do need to modify my panels a bit, bottom rail spacing is too big, babies can climb out... Have more babies expected in about a month.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps5f9b0ab1.jpg

The "babies" will be going to butcher in April, just over 6 months old. Anybody interested, have a posting in the "other sales" classification...

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Do you take visitors? My son would love to see something like that. I also thought about buying a pig to slaughter...... Thanks for sharing!

I grew up on a large swine operation. Never minded the farrowing end of the work. Hated everything else.

Thanks for sharing

very awesome! thank you for sharing! Makes me miss my grandparents farm in illinois. One year I raised a calf on a bottle, the next year I got to pet him and feed him (little moo was his name), the following year he followed us home in coolers!

Sigh. Watching those baby pigs almost makes me not to want to cook up some bacon. Then I watch them get bigger and older and realize they're bacon. Baby animals of anything I just can't kill.

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Originally Posted by PSS

I grew up on a large swine operation. Never minded the farrowing end of the work. Hated everything else.

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Did you clip teeth, cut tails, and castrate? I worked an antibiotic and steroid free confinement all through high school. It paid twice as much as bagging groceries or fast food, but processing new pigs was really rough on the gut after a kegger induced hang-over!

Oh, yeah. And sewed up prolapsed assholes, shot sick pigs, hauled out dead pigs, washed pig shit out of hog buildings with high pressure washers, got older and drove a 4 wheel drive Case IH hooked on a honey wagon to pump out pig shit. By older I mean 13. By the time I was 15 I hated that life so bad I quit school and apprenticed on to an electrician in town. Never looked back. I don't have much patience with people that baby their kids. Maybe this is why. And I grew up in a farm community where this was the norm.

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Originally Posted by PSS

Oh, yeah. And sewed up prolapsed assholes, shot sick pigs, hauled out dead pigs, washed pig shit out of hog buildings with high pressure washers

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Yep! I'm scarred for life!

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Originally Posted by PSS

Oh, yeah. And sewed up prolapsed assholes, shot sick pigs, hauled out dead pigs, washed pig shit out of hog buildings with high pressure washers, got older and drove a 4 wheel drive Case IH hooked on a honey wagon to pump out pig shit. By older I mean 13. By the time I was 15 I hated that life so bad I quit school and apprenticed on to an electrician in town. Never looked back. I don't have much patience with people that baby their kids. Maybe this is why. And I grew up in a farm community where this was the norm.

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So there is a glamorous side to pig farming?

[Coffee]

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Originally Posted by 10mm-man

Do you take visitors? My son would love to see something like that. I also thought about buying a pig to slaughter...... Thanks for sharing!

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Sure thing, let me know know when you want to come look, part of what we are doing is helping people who want to actually know that their food doesn't "come from the store"... If you wait a month or two, we'll have some babies on the ground, but whenever, just let me know. Let me know too if you want a half or whole, we'll have some in April...

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Originally Posted by jhood001

Did you clip teeth, cut tails, and castrate? I worked an antibiotic and steroid free confinement all through high school. It paid twice as much as bagging groceries or fast food, but processing new pigs was really rough on the gut after a kegger induced hang-over!

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Yep, not the fun side of having baby animals. Our pigs are all steroid free, and so far the little ones are antibiotic free. These pigs get medicine if they need it, but we don't do background meds and don't overmedicate. We tell people we treat them like humans, people expect to get medicine if they are sick...

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

So there is a glamorous side to pig farming?

[Coffee]

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Yeah, eating the bacon and providing bacon for others to eat!!! [Beer] I love it when someone who thinks supermarket pork is good tries real pork!


Our kids are very much involved and own some of the pigs, our 11 year old normally holds the pigs when castrating, both the kids help with clean out, and both feed. They also own chickens and sell eggs, their chicken money jar probably has $50-60 in it, they are saving to double their chicken flock this spring... Our 11 year old wants a new pellet gun, so he's been scrounging jobs from anybody he can to get a few dollars here and there, should have enough for what he wants before school is out for the summer. I hate what most parents do to their kids now... We provide all the kids need, but if they want to buy something, the only thing stopping them is their motivation. Despite what you hear on the news, there are jobs out there, most people just don't want to do them...

Thanks, that brought back some memories. My grandparents raised pigs close to Akron. Granddad managed the Denver Elevator in Akron, but most of his "real money" came from his 150 head hog operation. His were the dark red kind. I don't know the breed.

The pens surrounded the house. Farrowing on the north side, growing pigs on the west, and final fattening on the south side. He raised feed on his 140 acre farm. You get used to the smell in a day or two (as a kid anyway).

I also remember the ham supper on Sundays, and bacon every day for breakfast.

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Originally Posted by ColoFarmer

Our kids are very much involved and own some of the pigs, our 11 year old normally holds the pigs when castrating, both the kids help with clean out, and both feed. They also own chickens and sell eggs, their chicken money jar probably has $50-60 in it, they are saving to double their chicken flock this spring... Our 11 year old wants a new pellet gun, so he's been scrounging jobs from anybody he can to get a few dollars here and there, should have enough for what he wants before school is out for the summer. I hate what most parents do to their kids now... We provide all the kids need, but if they want to buy something, the only thing stopping them is their motivation. Despite what you hear on the news, there are jobs out there, most people just don't want to do them...

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Good on ya! That's how I was raised. Chores were expected and none of this allowance crap for doing nothing. When we wanted something, we worked for it (mowing lawns, etc.). That teaches the value of money better than anything taught in school.

I love bacon, but I also loves me some baby back ribs.
...and pork chops.
...and pork rinds.
...and...

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Originally Posted by Larry Ashcraft

Thanks, that brought back some memories. My grandparents raised pigs close to Akron. Granddad managed the Denver Elevator in Akron, but most of his "real money" came from his 150 head hog operation. His were the dark red kind. I don't know the breed.

The pens surrounded the house. Farrowing on the north side, growing pigs on the west, and final fattening on the south side. He raised feed on his 140 acre farm. You get used to the smell in a day or two (as a kid anyway).

I also remember the ham supper on Sundays, and bacon every day for breakfast.

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Who were your grandparents? I grew up on the farm homesteaded by my great great uncles northeast of Akron, graduated from Akron in 95...

Probably Duroc.

At what age do you recommend feeding them maple?...[Coffee]

Cute piglets! Can't wait for GilpinGuy's next stock of bacon! Meanwhile somewhere in Asia, they train their pet monkeys to ride them around:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o

wheres gilpin guy

Hah I can smell the farm.

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Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck

i dont have a pig.

but we have


http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a3...D550/ry%3D400/

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Nice Kids! (right?)