The Quack Shack

[duluthralphie]

we used to have poultry netting on the old run and it was awful. We replaced it with coated welded wire and the new pen has hardware cloth

I have netting on mine. I think it’s great...way better than wire..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

No idea if this got answered...so I will...

Cause I am extremely helpful and only want the truth out there..

Baby pigs are fragile...they need heat lights just like baby chicks....(using heat lamps on dux is a waste of money )

Predators will take the baby’s...when young. I assume you are looking at feeder pigs..which are 40 poundish size......a dog, coyote would take them maybe a fisher... pigs grow fast... at around 60-70 pound a they are pretty safe unless you have roaming dogs..

If a chicken is dumb enough to sit on a fence above a hungry pig it might go after it...the chickens will enjoy feeding on the pig poop... I no longer have hogs, if I did I would let the chickens free range with them....and at the risk of being tiresome to someone special....I would feed my pigs dux if I had any!!!

An Electric fence is about the only thing that will hold them... but it has to be built right....so they can’t push dirt over it and short the fence out..

Pigs are a lot of fun...and so yummy....

just know they grow and never stop growing. I have had boars that go over 500 pounds...

The meat of a boat is not edible unless he is castrated months many many months before you butcher him...

Boy pigs should be made into eunuchs at 2-3 weeks....just don’t let mommy pig hear the baby cry....

also and this is no joke!!!!!
Be careful a boar is always dangerous!!!!! Never enter a pen with them without protection and a way out fast!! More farmers have been killed by boats than by bulls!!!!

A sow with babies is more dangerous than a boar!!!

Be careful!!! I don’t want to have to waste money traveling to that Southie village you live in for your funeral!!!

seriously be careful!!!

I have always heard that the adult pigs will bite the heads off their own babies if they squeal too much.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Here’s Rufus he was 10 last August

 

[duluthralphie]

I have always heard that the adult pigs will bite the heads off their own babies if they squeal too much.

Lies!!!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Lies!!!

It is? J said he saw a mama pig do it once. Was he stoned?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Pigs can be great pets though.. they love belly rubs. When we were kids, Dad refused to let us have horses...

became extremely irate when we rode the milk cows.. it took him about 3 months to figure out we were riding the cows to the barn for milking and not walking them to the barn....

So we started riding the pigs. It was challenging as they would find low branches and try and knock us off their backs...

but these same pigs would follow us around the pasture and be with us whenever we were out there.

Pigs are luvable, friendly animals with the exception of Boars and Sows with a litter... and they don’t smell as bad as a dux...

I had a chance to get a pot belly but he was huge. My dh said nope.

 

[duluthralphie]

It is? J said he saw a mama pig do it once. Was he stoned?

I have never seen it. Not that it couldn’t happen. Mother pigs will lie on their babies and kill them by accident. They are not graceful mothers..

After the piglet is dead they will eat it, just as a dog will so the smell of dead rotting meat does not bring predators around..

Sows must be in a farrowing crate or pen when they whelp. The little pigs need a way to get out from the mother when she decides to plop down.

You can pretty much tell by the number of young an animal has what the chances are of the young one reaching adulthood in the wild is... which is 8-12 or more young 3 times a year...

I always find interesting animal rights groups (note I did not name PETA)... complain about hogs being confined in crates....but they don’t say anything about the maimed dead piglets if they sow was not in the crate....

I wonder if we could get sows to teach dux hens how to mother????

 

[duluthralphie]

I had a chance to get a pot belly but he was huge. My dh said nope.

Divorce him and get the pig!!!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Muscovy ducks are great mamas! My Runners don’t have time.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I have never seen it. Not that it couldn’t happen. Mother pigs will lie on their babies and kill them by accident. They are not graceful mothers..

After the piglet is dead they will eat it, just as a dog will so the smell of dead rotting meat does not bring predators around..

Sows must be in a farrowing crate or pen when they whelp. The little pigs need a way to get out from the mother when she decides to plop down.

You can pretty much tell by the number of young an animal has what the chances are of the young one reaching adulthood in the wild is... which is 8-12 or more young 3 times a year...

I always find interesting animal rights groups (note I did not name PETA)... complain about hogs being confined in crates....but they don’t say anything about the maimed dead piglets if they sow was not in the crate....

I wonder if we could get sows to teach dux hens how to mother????

Maybe the piglet was already dead and he saw the mama eating it or something..
Or the mama was trying to help it I think he said it was stuck in some fencing.
But I've heard that tale from other farmers as well. Maybe it's just messed up Missouri pigs.