Recent content by Poupoulles

Hi, I just got two little feeder pigs and one turned out to have coccidiosis. She is being treated, but I need to know about transference to poultry. I move my pigs around to root and fertilize parts of the orchard. Once they are parasite clear, and on fresh pasture, they should be ok since they...

We raise two feeders a year and sell at farmers markets.

We raised two pigs in a pen of hog panels and a house made of pallets with hog panels hooped over with a tarp as a roof. We moved the house and pen about once a week and let them rip up our garden. Not sure you could do a 4H this way but it worked for us and was a lot of fun. The hogs ended up...

She's a big ole girl... My oh my... Queen sized!

Just wanted to update myself and say that this has all worked out a treat!! They love their house, we have a completely torn up garden, they only escaped during the move once and I just led them to the apple tree to eat fallen apples until we were ready to shoo them back... Through a series of...

I needed my two feeders to dig up my garden, so I made a pen out of hog panels and I move it every three weeks or so (every two now) and it has worked like a charm. T posts at each corner, and one in the middle of certain sections, if the ground is uneven for example. Hog panels are the only...

Well Beavis and Butthead are now big and ready to go to the processor on Dec 6th. They will be about 5 months old, and my GUESS is that they will weigh about 170lbs. Butthead is a little smaller than Beavis- she is more aggressive and just a big ole girl! I heard processing a female hog in heat...

Wow!!! What fantastic looking sheep. They look like they can live on nothing...

So an update: today we moved them for the first time. The plan is to move them everytime they completely tear up a plot, we then move them to the next. By freezer camp time they will have torn up our whole garden. So far so good. They went crazy in the new plot. All I heard was munch munch...

Actually I think they are six weeks...

They are nine weeks- Butthead isnt castrated. I saw another post just like this but if I am not doing the cutting do I call my vet? The guy who sold them to us was going to come by and do it but havent heard from him so I need to make sure of plan B. same guy said to give them a second dose of...

They wont sleep in the magnificent pig palace I sweated and bled to build them. Will they know to go in it when it rains, or gets cold? Do I need to keep them in there for a few days? Really annoying!

I'm outside Mount Airy. About forty minutes north of Winston-Salem.

:D We got two feeder pigs specifically to root up the garden. So we will be moving them every few weeks until they have turned the whole thing! I am sick of rototilling with all the weeds catching in the tines, the rocks flying out, arms going numb... The pigs are not onlly doing this annoying...

Here they are!! Beavis and Butthead! Beavis has a nice belt but Butthead is offbelt (doesnt matter since we are taking both to the butcher)