Are you looking to raise the best tasting pork you and your family has ever had? Here’s a list of feed sources that will keep your pigs happy, provide high quality nutrition and make great tasting pork. Fresh and clean water is the forgotten feed ingredient As crazy as it sounds, the most important feed…
Now that you have decided to raise a few pigs, you’ll want to figure out what you should feed them. If you have looked around online, you’ll know there are a lot of opinions out there! Here’s the challenge, which ones are providing common sense advice and which opinions are just folks trying to get…
I’m sure you have heard that pigs can eat nearly anything, that’s true! Pigs are definitely one of nature’s versatile eaters. Just because pigs can eat all manner of feeds, doesn’t mean they should. To grow well and be healthy, what are the natural feeds pigs should be eating? Pigs are naturally omnivores, meaning pigs…
You don’t hear much about salt, when you are looking into what to feed your pigs. Do pigs even need salt, and, if so, how do you know the amount of salt to give them? Pigs need salt in their diet. Growing pigs need their daily salt intake to be .25% of their ration, while…
Once you have your pigs, now you need to feed them. How often should your pigs be fed to keep them at their healthiest and growing at their best? Feeder pigs should have unrestricted access to all they can eat, specially formulated, ground pig feed while you are feeding them for market or your freezer….
You’ve no doubt heard that pigs can eat nearly anything and with a bit of research you can find people all over the world raising pigs on very different diets. What is the best thing to feed pigs to keep them happy and healthy? The best thing to feed pigs is a ground or pelleted…
When you are looking into what you can feed your pigs, you can get all manner of advice. Who knows if that random guy on the internet is on to something or is flat out crazy. Or you could ask the feed company, but guess what they’ll say? They’ll say “buy my company’s pig feed”…
Pigs can eat nearly anything, right? But, should they, that the question! Is feeding hay to your pigs the right thing to do or would it be best for the pigs to only give them pig feed? Pigs eating hay are able to express natural behaviors and gain more efficiently, however, they will take more…
We all know that the amount and quality of feed to give your breeding stock is vital to the health, as well as the productivity, of your pigs . For the beginner, properly feeding for the changing needs of your breeding stock can be confusing. How much feed should sows and breeding age gilts get…
Considering making your own pig feed? Here are some numbers to help! Before we get going there are are few things you need to know: We use an 11 pound scale and measure into coffee cans, since we are making 500 or 1,000 pound batches of feed. Smaller batches will need a digital scale to…