Re: Hog Waller Pig Update
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:23 pm
I am looking forward to seeing what is involved in hog raisin'!
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Ben B wrote:I am looking forward to seeing what is involved in hog raisin'!
Ben B wrote:I don't know that I will raise hogs. I've threatened to a couple of times but that don't mean much. I'm always bouncing ideas around in my head. I've had the cub idea for years and just recently got into them.
I'm mainly concentrating on raising my boys, and part of that is teaching them WHERE food comes from and HOW to get it for themselves if they ever need to. There isn't enough education on that kind of thing anymore. I grew up in a rural area and there were still a lot of small farms around when I was a kid. Now, most of them have been sold and turned into subdivisions. I want to expose my boys to the same things I was so they can pass along the same thing to their kids hopefully.
And, I want them to have a good work ethic when they get grown, and farmers are some of the hardest working people you will ever find!
grumpy wrote:No offense but I'd raise at least one because someone told me not to!!
Super A wrote:grumpy wrote:No offense but I'd raise at least one because someone told me not to!!
Spoken like someone who has never raised hogs before....
Al
grumpy wrote:Super A wrote:grumpy wrote:No offense but I'd raise at least one because someone told me not to!!
Spoken like someone who has never raised hogs before....
Al
I've castrated at least 50 many years ago with a single edge razor blade and a bottle of rubbing alcohol and shoveled quite a few loads of manure on the spreader so, I've been around a few. Didn't mind them a bit. Used to seperate the cream and slop them with the waste which we now pay $4.00 for at the market along with garbage from the grade school and day old bread. I'd do it now if I had the room. Grump