Hog pen remodel

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Added another roof and redid the floor
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I am guessing that the addition of the new roof will deflect the sun and give them more shade? I like it! And it looks like you packed in more dirt for the floor. Did you use cement blocks? What will keep the pigs from rooting them up?

Since you are doing a remodel, I suppose the pigs are in the freezer. What were their hanging weights?

Thanks to you and the pictures you posted, my hog raising is soooooo much easier now! I gave the pigs 100 pounds of feed this evening, I just go to the "window", open the top of the feed bin and pour it in, standing outside the pen. Wow. You have no idea how much I appreciate that! We have their blue barrel in the corner for soured corn and another blue barrel with the hog nipple extended into the pen. Freakin' awesome!
 

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Yep the new roof is for more shade someone built the last one wrong. The last two hogs went in the freezer last fall I would have to look up the weight they weren't as big as I wanted.
 

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Your welcome. The concrete is two by two cement pads. I ringed their noses this year. Last year they were pretty destructive.
 

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Those are some handsome piggies! What breed/breeds? Four pigs, do you sell the "extras" and keep one for yourself? What is your target slaughter date?

The morning sun comes in the shelter I built for my pigs, but it isn't too bad. There is shade in their pen from the trees that are growing in the pen. I'll follow your lead and ring noses from now on, unless they are already big, like the Herefords that I have now were. They were four months old, so I figured if I tackled them, I might come out of that pen with a ring in MY nose! LOL
 

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Can you tell me the size of your pen and the size of the fenced in area? I am hoping this summer/fall to start working on my pen and enclosed areas to be ready for two feeder pigs in the spring. I am still unsure of how much room they need for both the pen and the fenced in area. Yours must be big enough for 4 which I don't plan at this point to have that many.
 

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