Including pigs in your permaculture design saves labour and provides healthy exercise and a varied diet for your hogs, leading to overall better welfare and tastier products.
Read MorePig intelligence studies reveal how smart are pigs and how their perspective requires consideration when handling and housing them.
Read MoreHow to raise hogs in a comfortable and enjoyable environment that meets their physical and behavioral needs. Here are seven essentials for pig happiness that will enhance their health and production.
Read MoreThe time frame for weaning pasture piglets varies from breed to breed. Not all breeds of pasture pigs mature at the same rate.
Read MoreThe spring and summer are a great time to bring pigs onto your farm or homestead. Within a few months, it is possible to have homegrown pork to fill your freezer.
Read MoreThe new pig in the pasture! The Idaho Pasture Pig breed has taken the homesteading community by storm this year.
Read MoreThe Hampshire pig is recognized easily by the wide white belt that continues down the front legs on a black hog. The Hampshire pig is the fourth most recorded breed in registries, and a common hog found in many pig farm operations.
Read MoreSpringtime! The time of rebirth, awakening, and babies! For those of us raising piglets, this is a time of little ones running through the fields and nursing in the sunshine.
Read MoreAdd to Favorites By Jill J Easton – Are you looking for pigs you can live with and enjoy, but that will also provide delectable table fare? Consider KuneKunes. These heritage …
Read MoreWhere can you find an all-in-one lambing calculator that also works to factor a pig’s gestation period and a cow’s pregnancy length? Here!
Read MoreSow care during gestation, farrowing and lactation is the key to healthier piglets. When piglets have a strong start in life they are more likely to thrive, develop quickly, and wean easily.
Read MoreThe latest project here on our farm is raising pigs on pasture. In the last year and a half, seven litters of piglets have arrived, showed off how cute they can be, were weaned, and fed for a few weeks (and even months in some cases).
Read MoreFinding you have extra farm piglets for sale can happen occasionally. Pig breeders have a product that is more popular at certain times of the year.
Read MoreMany times the only pig feeding guide you can find states that pigs can eat everything. While this may be true, pigs shouldn’t necessarily eat everything.
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