blucoondawg
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Hi everyone, I'm new here but have been reading on this site quite a bit. I'm in northern Wisconsin and this year we have decided to get some feeder pigs from the wife's co worker they will be Tamworth/mulefoot cross. We were gonna get 3 maybe 4 but by the time we were done we had many more people requesting a pig so ended up with 7. Quite a few for the first year but we will deal with it.
The main question I have is about free feeding, these pigs are all litter mates so obviously the same age yet there will be size differences between gilts, barrows, maybe a runt. I am currently planning to hand feed rather than go free choice, I have read the recommended feed amount goes by weight of the pig, would it be OK to just go with the weight of the largest pig multiply that by 7 and feed that out daily or would you figure feed for each of by its individual weight.
The main question I have is about free feeding, these pigs are all litter mates so obviously the same age yet there will be size differences between gilts, barrows, maybe a runt. I am currently planning to hand feed rather than go free choice, I have read the recommended feed amount goes by weight of the pig, would it be OK to just go with the weight of the largest pig multiply that by 7 and feed that out daily or would you figure feed for each of by its individual weight.