Here is some food for thought. If you have a 400 pound pig, it is harder to "harvest" them. Vs the 200 pound pig. My neighbors had pot bellied, kune kune cross. Less pig, less meat, but they are easy to work with.
Definitely a valid point. They were pretty easy to handle. Was able to lift the halves pretty easily to hang and made for easy work on the table as well. 400 would be too much. Ideally I’d like to split the difference and finish around 300. Possibly even a little under if it’s the right breed with good structure
I'm in a somewhat similar situation except I've never raised pigs (or anything else) and I'm intending to convert 45 acres to silvopasture starting with pigs for the understory/roots. I'm trying to find "pastured" or forested pigs for obvious reasons but they're mostly lard pigs or crosses with attendant long finishing cycles (AGH, Magalitsa Duroc cross, IPP) and I'm in northern CA, 2700 feet, zone 9b.)
Interesting - pretty much how we started. We’re running them on just over an acre broken into a few paddocks but the original goal was to clear the undergrowth as well. Could not walk through the area to start and they’ve certainly changed the landscape now. They’re great at rooting and foraging but that job is almost done.
I raise mostly berkshire hogs with duroc york and red wattle mix. We have a couple upcoming litters due this August and might keep our boar around to breed for spring piglets too depending on timing, etc. We started our breeding stock on pasture and rotated them until 2022. Weve had piglets each spring for the last 3 years. Highest quality in the pork in tristate area no doubt. check us out on youtube - High View Farm New Jersey These kind of hogs grow very well and are very docile. great for breeding stock and to mix in and raise as feeders. Let me know if you want breeding stock or feeders or whatever.
@@EvergreenFarm19 of course man. Your pigs look great theyre a nice mix but i bet take some time to grow out properly. We're right over the Delaware Water Gap in NJ. We also market our piglets on craigslist northjersey. We'll probably have an ad up for piglets in a few weeks or so. We usually sell piglets for 150 in spring early summer, after that 100 each. I love doing pigs man. I hand pick grasses, nuts, apples, pears, chicken eggs, anything from farm I mix into their diet. And so my whole goal in life is actually to create as close to the best breeding stock and feeders possible. I'm used to selling 12-15 piglets as feeders each year, but I would be so pumped up if someone got breeding stock of me cause I know for a fact my pigs are docile have great mothering instincts and proven litters, solid growth rate and ability to thrive in below freezing temperatures or in the elements. Thats the jersey duroc in my sows. So yea, hit m e up if you need anything I'm telling you my breeding stock of my sow Joey are the nicest berkshire cross piglets ive seen on youtube and I watch a ton of videos.
I’ll definitely keep you in mind if we decide to change it up. That would be a fairly short drive for me and would be awesome to get some established genetics! Thanks for watching and reaching out
@@EvergreenFarm19 we just brought one of our 28 mnth old sows to butcher cause she never got bred this year which we werent expecting. 556lbs hanging weight. shes 1/4 duroc, 3/8 york, 1/4 berk, 1/8 red wattle. keeping her sister who is currently bred - due later september. We bred her to our berkshire boar. We'll have a litter of our best piglets weaned around middle to end of november and once more in early spring. Then getting rid of boar late in winter once we confirm our sow is bred for spring litter. And starting over with a new boarlet from a nice local pig farm nearby we source from
That’s a tank! Haha. I may just be in touch come spring time. We just had a litter here that I’ll try to sell off once weaned but like I said may be considering switching up the genetics
Here is some food for thought. If you have a 400 pound pig, it is harder to "harvest" them. Vs the 200 pound pig. My neighbors had pot bellied, kune kune cross. Less pig, less meat, but they are easy to work with.
Definitely a valid point. They were pretty easy to handle. Was able to lift the halves pretty easily to hang and made for easy work on the table as well. 400 would be too much. Ideally I’d like to split the difference and finish around 300. Possibly even a little under if it’s the right breed with good structure
I'm in a somewhat similar situation except I've never raised pigs (or anything else) and I'm intending to convert 45 acres to silvopasture starting with pigs for the understory/roots. I'm trying to find "pastured" or forested pigs for obvious reasons but they're mostly lard pigs or crosses with attendant long finishing cycles (AGH, Magalitsa Duroc cross, IPP) and I'm in northern CA, 2700 feet, zone 9b.)
Interesting - pretty much how we started. We’re running them on just over an acre broken into a few paddocks but the original goal was to clear the undergrowth as well. Could not walk through the area to start and they’ve certainly changed the landscape now. They’re great at rooting and foraging but that job is almost done.
I raise mostly berkshire hogs with duroc york and red wattle mix. We have a couple upcoming litters due this August and might keep our boar around to breed for spring piglets too depending on timing, etc.
We started our breeding stock on pasture and rotated them until 2022. Weve had piglets each spring for the last 3 years. Highest quality in the pork in tristate area no doubt. check us out on youtube - High View Farm New Jersey
These kind of hogs grow very well and are very docile. great for breeding stock and to mix in and raise as feeders.
Let me know if you want breeding stock or feeders or whatever.
Appreciate that! I’ll definitely check your channel out
@@EvergreenFarm19 of course man. Your pigs look great theyre a nice mix but i bet take some time to grow out properly.
We're right over the Delaware Water Gap in NJ. We also market our piglets on craigslist northjersey. We'll probably have an ad up for piglets in a few weeks or so. We usually sell piglets for 150 in spring early summer, after that 100 each. I love doing pigs man. I hand pick grasses, nuts, apples, pears, chicken eggs, anything from farm I mix into their diet.
And so my whole goal in life is actually to create as close to the best breeding stock and feeders possible. I'm used to selling 12-15 piglets as feeders each year, but I would be so pumped up if someone got breeding stock of me cause I know for a fact my pigs are docile have great mothering instincts and proven litters, solid growth rate and ability to thrive in below freezing temperatures or in the elements. Thats the jersey duroc in my sows.
So yea, hit m e up if you need anything I'm telling you my breeding stock of my sow Joey are the nicest berkshire cross piglets ive seen on youtube and I watch a ton of videos.
I’ll definitely keep you in mind if we decide to change it up. That would be a fairly short drive for me and would be awesome to get some established genetics! Thanks for watching and reaching out
@@EvergreenFarm19 we just brought one of our 28 mnth old sows to butcher cause she never got bred this year which we werent expecting. 556lbs hanging weight. shes 1/4 duroc, 3/8 york, 1/4 berk, 1/8 red wattle. keeping her sister who is currently bred - due later september. We bred her to our berkshire boar. We'll have a litter of our best piglets weaned around middle to end of november and once more in early spring. Then getting rid of boar late in winter once we confirm our sow is bred for spring litter. And starting over with a new boarlet from a nice local pig farm nearby we source from
That’s a tank! Haha. I may just be in touch come spring time. We just had a litter here that I’ll try to sell off once weaned but like I said may be considering switching up the genetics