As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. This is an average number, so specialty breeds will vary with a fatter pig will yielding less and a wider, meatier pig will yield more. Feeder pig prices will vary. Important Note: Have all of your supplies laid out and ready before you start dealing with the pig. I just sold a few market hogs that were over 300 pounds, 305 to be exact. Feed for your feeder pigs will be available at most any farm store.
Save your passwords securely with your Google Account. Can I keep a feeder pig as a pet? First off, I doubt they have feeder pigs available for sale to the public and secondly, these are not the type of pigs you are looking for. Another aspect of price to consider is that pigs are herd animals and like to have company of other pigs. Try to get pigs from a farm that is raising their pigs the way you plan to raise yours. You'll need to have a top price that you are willing to pay and a pen ready for the pigs when the hauler brings them, if you are not picking them up yourself. The most common cross bred feeder pig available is called a "blue butt", which are piglets from a white sow bred to a colored boar. Local feeder pigs are your best option, since most auctions sell feeder pigs in larger groups. Buy feeder pigs from a farm, if you can. Feeder pigs are fed a ground feed containing corn, soybean meal and a premix supplement that contains all of the minerals and nutrients they need to grow at the optimal rate for their size. The final weight you are shooting for here is 250 pounds.
Good air flow and some sunshine and they will be happy. Start your pigs on a 16% feed. What on earth was I thinking letting them get that big? Your pigs will dress out at 72% of slaughter weight. Everyone seems to have their favorite choice or is excited to try out for themselves a breed they read about online. They grow fairly quickly and yield quite a bit of meat for your efforts. Pigs will also eat hay, grass, bugs, and garden scraps. Best Breed Of Pigs For Beginners goes into more detail about why some breeds are easier to raise than others. When your pigs are stressed it will take them longer to reach their finished weight. If you like your pigs larger (we do) it will take longer to reach processing weight. You came to the right place! We have weekly livestock auctions in our area so this is the easiest choice for us. Get cross breed feeder pigs.
Feeder pigs eat a mixed ground feed. Yes, you can butcher your pigs at home! This is for an three month old or so cross bred pig. Ready to get your first feeder pigs yet not really sure what to do? Now that we have home butchered both pigs and cattle, we are wondering why it took us this long to try this at home! I can help you with some of the basics so you can be more confident your new enterprise will start well. Once you start cutting up the carcass into freezer ready pieces you will lose a bit more weight in trim and oddments that you don't want to keep, resulting in 120 pounds of meat. Pigs are one of the best choices for raising your own meat. Cross bred animals are generally a little bit tougher and faster growing than an purebred animal. Most people would be butchering around the 250 pound mark, for a nice balance between fat cover and good size cuts of meat. If the only pig farms in your area are CAFO's (confinement farms), not those. 5-5 months from feeder pig size. Where to get a feeder pig.
Additional information is available in this support article. The tractor is needed because you will be butchering the pig when it is 250 pounds you will need a way to lift up the carcass. If you can't attend the auction and are not overly picky about what you get, the auction has a buyer that can bid for you. Feeder pigs can be purchased at the farm where they were born or at a livestock auction. There is plenty of information available online, our first time we used the directions in a book-worked great!
Call the auction and see what they can set up for you. Blue butts are a commonly available and reasonably priced feeder pig that would work great as your first pig to raise for meat. The specific cross doesn't matter but you'll be best served by getting pigs that other people are growing in your area. Think about what it is that you want most and feed your pigs accordingly. First off you will need to kill the pig, no surprise there!
Prices will change, sometimes drastically change, with the seasons and the current demand. Honestly, it's not that hard. You'll get 120 pounds of meat from a 250 pound pig. They should be spunky, well grown and not have any obvious health problems.
There are a few reasons this might happen: - You're a power user moving through this website with super-human speed. Great question, actually! My husband is a deer hunter and we had been processing our own poultry for years, so this was the next big step for us. Feeder pig prices are higher in the spring. The skinning, if you are doing it, needs to be done immediately. If you go to a farm for your pig expect to pay a bit more per pig. They love to have a few extras to eat now and again. When I write local pig farm, I mean hands on family farmer, not an industrial pork production facility that happens to be close to your house. So from a 250 pound pig you can plan on getting a 180 pound carcass.
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