When is the best time to get pig? ?

Question

My family is thinking about getting a pig or two. We're just going to finish them. Anyway, could we get a couple now ( late summer) or should we wait till spring?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, you may. Piggies feed on varieties of food. They love rice, fruits and veggies and whatever food that remains. Just cook them a bit like porigges and they`re really like to feed upon.

Pigs are very clean animals. The place where they sleep and the place for shitting, you could see they  keep it away with a line. They used their nose to push away rubbish and stake them with their waste.

Answer 2

Pigs can handle going through winter cold if they have deep straw to hide under at night, and the cold weather will produce somewhat leaner meat. That is not why Canadian pork is leaner than US pork. Canadian breeding has done that. But even Canadian feeder pigs grow leaner meat in winter.

If you are planning to butcher at home, and hang the meat in the garage, then you will want to have the butchering in early winter.

But if you plan to use the freezer, any time of year works.

For feeding pigs, often the most economical food is what is growing outside other than in northern winter, but be aware that pigs can lift gates and leave the premises.

Having two pigs and then butchering one will produce a very stressed out remaining pig. It may have been safe to go into its pen earlier but not after. There is a stress situation even if the butchering is done away from home.

A second pig will grow to be very overweight in the time most families would consume the first. So the second will be too fat unless the first was butchered at a small weight.

  

Answer 3

Most any time but finishing during the winter month if you are in a cold region will require more care.  This would mean bedding material to stay warm.  The rate of gain would be lower because more feed is needed for staying warm even though housing is provided.  Just some thoughts.

Answer 4

you have to supply them with shelter and they will eat more food in the winter and they have got to have water which can freeze in the cold

Answer 5

You can get feeder pigs anytime of the year.  I would caution you to know where you are going to have them processed or where you are going to sell them before you get a couple and become attached to them.

Answer 6

depends on what size you want them to be when you sell or butcher them. it takes about 8 months from birth to have a "market" hog. to have them ready to butcher depends on what you want. i would feed them for a year if you want a lard hog or 8 to 10 months otherwise.

Answer 7

I just recantly raised and sold a pure yorkshire at the county fair and i wanted to get a new one but my ag advisor said to wait untill about march, april, or even may to get my new one. id wait. whats it going to hurt. and all pigs have their own presonality so they dont all like the same foods.

Answer 8

dont really know but i guess more towards spring as in cooler months the pig will eat and fatten up more which will yield lots of pork too.

Yeah so fatten it up as much as it can!

Answer 9

Now is good. They might like a bit of straw for bedding as it gets colder.