Pig pictures...

[Shootersfab]

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

Thanks for posting!

[ColoFarmer]

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

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

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

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

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

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...

[Aloha_Shooter]

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...

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

[10mm-man]

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.



Babies at about a month old



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



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



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...



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.



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

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!

[PSS]

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

[Faust]

Thanks for sharing

[sniper7]

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!

[Ashton]

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.

[jhood001]

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

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!

[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.