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I'd like to learn more about the scalding and scraping and how to get lard please. :)

Same to you @Farmer Connie :)

Thanks everyone. They seem a lot better today. They even showed interest in eating. No incessant scratching either. Now that it's daylight I was able to look around better... No diarrhea thank goodness. The big guy will be slaughtered in the new year once we have more freezer space. The...

There is mold in the hay. If I get it out of there will they recover or is slaughter the best option? I don't have much freezer room and the person who helped us slaughter fell off a ladder the other day and is out of commission.

And the scratching incessantly? That is a sign of an ulcer as well?

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Yup... had a yummy steak for dinner on Sunday

Now both pigs are going nuts itching. They're rubbing on anything and everything. Thanks @Baymule

Hi everyone :) I'm new to raising animals. I got 2 pigs in August. 1 gilt and one castrated male (someone told me that they're called steers). We added another male (half brother/cousin) Born a month and a half later. The gilt has since made it to the freezer. I also have 4 buckeye hens and...

Lol!! You're here too!

I have a young castrated male that is throwing up almost constantly. (Born end of July) approx 80 lbs.. I have a larger older castrated male born early June weighing approx 250 lbs. We slaughtered a gilt on Saturday. The males gobbled up her blood. They seemed fine Saturday evening, making...