New addition to the family arrives today

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Redoverfarm

#25
October 04, 2008, 06:14:53 PM
And this little piggy goes to market. Monday.  It is the last of the 4H project for this year.  Originally there were two. The first was sold at the 4H sale a couple months ago.  This ones future is for Ham & Bacon show in early spring.  The high school had built a special curing room for the FFA & 4H participants to cure their ham and bacon. 

As you can see it is amazing what a couple hundred dollars of feed and five months growth will do.  And we have all but stopped running the garbage disposal for the last five months.  I guess we will start it again after Monday.


I think they were about 40-50#



This wa last night and I would guess about 240-250#.  Yep probably about a dollar a pound in feed.

glenn kangiser

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October 04, 2008, 10:03:14 PM Last Edit: October 04, 2008, 11:01:46 PM by glenn kangiser
It looks like Spike, John.  :(  I'm not hungry right now.... ::)
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#27
October 04, 2008, 10:27:03 PM
I raised a few of those but mine kept digging escape tunnels so I gave up.

peternap

#28
October 05, 2008, 05:03:04 PM
Looking good John. What are hogs going for now?
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#29
October 05, 2008, 07:08:10 PM
Not real sure Peter as the 4H sales go a little higher than regular sales.  The one back a month ago the son got $1.87 a pound.  This one is not going to be sold well part of it in March after the Ham & Bacon cure out.  The rest goes into Mom & Dads freezer.   ;)

Redoverfarm

#30
April 20, 2009, 08:41:56 PM
Well another year has passed and it is that time again.  With the economy pigs are getting hard to find.  We picked up his show pig this evening.  It originally came from Ohio.  Still haven't found one locally to raise for butchering for his ham and bacon sale.  It is a little smaller than last year at 36# vs 50# but that is probably because it came from a later litter.  By August it should be between 290-310#.



Of course the girl had to greet it as well.  I guess next year I will be buying 4 hogs so each of them will have two.



Oh Yes Dad got in the act as well last week and picked up a couple to graze during the summer.  I went to another sale this past Friday and the cost had gone up 10-15 cents per pound in two weeks.  But it always happens that way.  Right now the grass is a little on the light side so in a month or so I will get a couple more.  By that time the price should fall a little and the grass will be better.

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