Help!! 4-H Pig too heavy!

[dbloom]

Anyone have experience with 4-H pigs getting too close to their max weight? We have 10 days to weigh in and at the rate she's going she will be too heavy! Anyone have any tips with feeding/ diets to help control weight gain??

 

[ChickenCanoe]

What makes up the diet now?

Perhaps supplement some of the feed/grain with more greens.
Can you let her forage for most of the day to find her own food?

 

[dbloom]

She was free feeding a 16% protein Purina Pig pellet with occasional greens. She started pan feeding to limit the amount yesterday when we found out she weighed so much. She has really good muscle tone right now so we don't want to risk losing any of that. And she's going to supplement with greens and try more exercise. She's gaining too much too fast and at the rate she is going she will be way over weight which is 300 lbs for our fair. She weighed in at 287 last night

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm sure if you let her forage most of the day and just give her a small amount of feed in the morning to maintain the amino acid balance she'll slow the weight gain dramatically. It should actually improve her muscle tone.