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Growing Fodder for Pigs
Want to know how to grow fodder for pigs? Learn how to start feeding your pigs the optimal nutrition for better growth and meat.
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Pig Raising Basics: Bringing Home Your Feeder Pigs
If you’re just starting out with feeder pigs, these pig-raising basics will help you on your new journey.
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Raising Spotted Pigs: Gloucestershire Old Spot
We love raising pigs for meat, so I was excited to try a new pig breed. One bite of that succulent pork roast, and I knew I was on to something.
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5 Hog Breeds for the Backyard Homesteader
Raising pigs for meat is a great step toward self-sustaining living, and there are several hog breeds that appear on guides to pig farming for beginners.
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Amazing Mangalitsa! Pigs for Sustainable Farming
Mangalitsa pigs are hardy, disease resistant, and adaptable. They thrive in free-range systems, being excellent foragers and skillful mothers. They make the perfect workers on homesteads and sustainable farms.
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Bedding Pigs on Pasture
It’s that time of year again. The nights are longer, the days shorter, and the temperatures colder. With weather like this, it is time to talk about bedding for your pigs on pasture.
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Choosing a Butcher for Your Pasture Pigs
Raising pigs on pasture not only means you have healthier pigs and have paid less to raise them, but also that you have better-quality pork.
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Weaning Pasture Piglets
The time frame for weaning pasture piglets varies from breed to breed. Not all breeds of pasture pigs mature at the same rate.
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Raising Piglets
Springtime! 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.
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Using a 2-Acre Farm Layout to Raise Your Own Meat
Add to Favorites Although the idea of using a two-acre farm layout to raise your own meat is both bewitching and bewildering, by the end of this article, you’ll have …
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Cold Weather Tips for Raising Hogs for Meat
Cold weather requires some planning for any homesteader raising hogs for meat. In the area of proper nutrition, thought and extra effort must be given to available supplies of fresh ice-free water at all times for all classes of hogs—the piglet, the weanling, growing/finishing, gestating and the lactating sow.
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Farm Piglets for Sale in Today’s Market
Finding 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.
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A Guide to How to Butcher a Pig
The hardest part of getting that homestead hog from pen to freezer is the part that most people don’t like to talk about: harvesting.
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The Best Barbecue Ribs: Secrets to Barbecue Joint-Quality Ribs
My first bite of spicy, saucy barbecue ribs in a local ribs restaurant put me on a quest to perfect this ultimate finger food. The best barbecue ribs have intense flavor from a dry rub and smoky barbecue sauce, and a texture that is tender, meaty and succulent.
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The Secrets to Barbecue Joint-Quality Ribs
My first bite of spicy, saucy barbecue ribs in a local ribs restaurant put me on a quest to perfect this ultimate finger food. The best barbecue ribs have intense flavor from a dry rub and smoky barbecue sauce, and a texture that is tender, meaty, and succulent.
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