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Baymule

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Welcome to the forum! So glad to have you!! We're raising our second round of feeder pigs. We raised Large Black/Berkshire pigs last year. This year we are raising Red Wattle pigs and a Hampshire for a neighbor. Pigs are easy to raise and the meat is soooooo much better than the tasteless "other white meat" cardboard crap that passes off as edible pork. You will enjoy your pigs! When we loaded the first pigs, we just backed the trailer in the pen, put up some wire to keep them away from it so they didn't chew the wiring and opened the end gate. I put their feed and water in the trailer and let them load themselves.

My Red Wattles are survivor pigs, I watched one straddle a sapling, walk it down, then they ate the leaves. LOL Pigs like greenery, vegetables and practically anything. We give ours boiled eggs for the Lysine, an essential nutrient for pigs, and because they go pig crazy and hog wild for them! We do NOT enter the field, but just lob the eggs over the fence.



I would have been a hog owner, but mine climbed out of the trailer recently during transport and flew away :hit

when pigs fly........:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig
 

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Welcome to the forum! So glad to have you!! We're raising our second round of feeder pigs. We raised Large Black/Berkshire pigs last year. This year we are raising Red Wattle pigs and a Hampshire for a neighbor. Pigs are easy to raise and the meat is soooooo much better than the tasteless "other white meat" cardboard crap that passes off as edible pork. You will enjoy your pigs! When we loaded the first pigs, we just backed the trailer in the pen, put up some wire to keep them away from it so they didn't chew the wiring and opened the end gate. I put their feed and water in the trailer and let them load themselves.

My Red Wattles are survivor pigs, I watched one straddle a sapling, walk it down, then they ate the leaves. LOL Pigs like greenery, vegetables and practically anything. We give ours boiled eggs for the Lysine, an essential nutrient for pigs, and because they go pig crazy and hog wild for them! We do NOT enter the field, but just lob the eggs over the fence.





when pigs fly........:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig
So far they are a pleasure to have - finally coming over to me now that I bring the food consistently - and apple slices at lunch time! Any suggestions for how to get them to try the nipple for water?
 

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With hold water from them for a day, rub some of that apple on the water nipple and try to get the nipple to drip, preferably not using your fingers! Use a stick or something to press the water nipple, so they smell the water.
 

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With hold water from them for a day, rub some of that apple on the water nipple and try to get the nipple to drip, preferably not using your fingers! Use a stick or something to press the water nipple, so they smell the water.

Thanks....cant wait to give it a try!
 
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