I just picked up this pair of used outdoor pig feeders for a song. The old modified Smidley feeder wasn’t …
Tag: Pigs
Piglets!
Once again our farm is graced with the presence of a passel of fine-looking piglets. Our large black sow has …
Ferocious Herding Dog & Friends
Bullitt, our Australian cattle dog (red heeler) has done quite a bit of growing since I first wrote about him. …
Spring Cleaning
By this weekend our first sow should kick off our spring farrowing with her first litter. We’re still not setup …
Bad Stock Tanks, Good Stock Tanks.
This winter we’ve been figuring out how to keep feeding the wet distillers grains to our pigs in the below-freezing …
Decisions, Decisions…
Ever since we got rid of one of our Large Black sows, I’ve been keeping tabs on a few young …
Distillers Grain Handling
So we’ve got a few months experience with feeding wet distillers grain, and we’ve come up with a few things …
A Quick Illustration of the Absurdity of Commodity Markets
Lets just say you bought a feeder pig in June. That pig would have weighed about 50lbs. and cost you …
Piglet Processing
We weaned the last summer litter of piglets today. I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain a bit of …
End of Summer Crunch
As busy as it seems around the farm in the spring, it’s got nothing on the end of summer. Combine …