Do you process your pigs yourself? I want to raise pigs for meat but we would
have to do the butchering ourselves and I'm not sure if I can deal with it.


--- In cheapcritters@yahoogroups.com, Debi Hopkins <debih@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Molly,
>
> We got 2 piglets 2 weeks ago, the female was 1/3 bigger than the male,
> they were only 8 weeks old, and had been raised on milk and bread in a
> fenced in grassy area. They were bottle fed because the mother rejected
> the whole litter, and there were 4 left unsold, we purchased the two
> biggest that were left. We also have milk goats, and last year when we
> raised our pigs, we gave them goats milk mixed in with their mash, and
> they loved it, and they grew very nicely, not too fat, but just right,
> and the meat was the best we have ever gotten from our meat pigs.
> (We've been raising them since 2001)
>
> These newest piglets have grown so quickly, it's amazing, and they are
> spunky and spry and happy pigs, so I think there is something to this
> goats milk for pigs thing. As our garden starts producing, they will
> get garden treats too, and a local produce market gave me left overs
> last year, so I need to see if they have any for us this year.
>
> Anyway, that's about all I know on piglets, except if they are very
> small, they will need a heat lamp for a few weeks.
>
> Debi in WA
>
>
> Molly wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi, atm I have 3 dairy goats, a horse with no job, 1 boer doe that is
> > useless, chickens, ducks, geese, and fixing to get 2 piglets. What do
> > I need to know about 2 month old piglets? Raised a potbellied pig
> > before, but these will be the big pigs. Thanks.
> >
> > Molly
> > Midway, GA
> >
> >
>