Thanks for letting me join. Looking forward to learning a lot here. This is me and my girls.

[farmerjan]

Welcome from the Shenandoah Valley area in western Va. I am a transplanted yankee originally from CT 40+ years ago....

Pigs do a great job of cleaning up a garden area... used to use them both in CT and at my previous place to till and eat all the left over stuff, and add some good manure back. Raised the best cantaloupes I ever had in a garden that had housed pigs the fall previously.

Please go to your name top right on the page, down to account details, and down to location and put in a general location that will show up on your avatar every time you post... some of us more "mature in our prime" members won't remember your comment from one post to another... advice and help and just conversations are easier if we can just glance and see where you are. You have totally different grasses in southern Al than we do here in Va.... my advice might not be at all helpful on some things there... Looks like your daughter is a great player... congrats to her too.

 

[SageHill]

Welcome fro So Cal. Just hair sheep, chickens, and dogs - no pigs.

 

[Mini Horses]

Soon as we get settled I’m gonna start out with a couple pigs for butchering. I’m currently working on clearing my pasture/feed pen for finishing out a steer or two a year. I have a big family that likes to eat meat.,

Ya know -- fence & sheds can go up while they're building . That scrap wood pile could be a treasure.

Welcome from VA.

 

[Smoke House]

This is your lucky day! My late husband and I retired to northeast Texas on 8 acres. I got busy raising feeder pigs and chronicled my adventures with a new thread each year.

After he died, I sold that farm, moved further south to Trinity county and bought 25 acres. I raise Katahdin hair sheep and have Anatolian Shepherds for livestock guard dogs. So far, I’ve gotten 2 fields out of 3, fenced in sheep and goat wire, which I heartily recommend. It has 4” “holes” and will hold small livestock. Most people will run electric hot wire on the inside to keep their animals off the fence, for greater security.

I’ve been here 2 years, but have not built a pig pen. This place needs tons of work and I don’t want to add new animals until I have this whole place under fence and a couple of barns built. Lately, my neighbor has put up a hog trap and I take every one I can get. He passes the “wealth” around, there are people glad to get the free meat. Today I’m processing a feral 200 pound young boar. I thought about posting a tutorial and I think I’ll do that. I’ve been sending pictures to a friend that just did his first slaughter yesterday and has no idea how to cut it up for meat.

I’ll go find my feeder pig threads and post them for you. I finally got it right and built a Pig Palace.

Thank you very much! Looking forward to reading the post.

 

[canesisters]

We are about 4 hours from there. My little girl has played ball in Alexander City when they hold the Allstar state championships there.

Probably had some sort of interactions with my cousin. She's been HEAVILY into softball her whole life. Coached for a long while. If it's softball & within reasonable distance of Alex City, she's probably involved in some way.