Do You, Personally, Kill Your Own Meat? page 6

[Mud Flinger]

I've thought about raising some pigs also, but have been told that their waste is horrible. For those of you raising pigs, do they tend to leave their waste in a certain area so that you can remove it or are they more like fowl who go where ever with little reguard. I have heard it goes both ways, but understand that pigs are intelligent and cleaner than most people believe. Also, what about their enclosures - do they escape often? Problems with raccoons, foxes or coyotes?

[jfreaksho]

So, the cat wouldn't eat the livers, either, eh?

I heard once that cats bring people dead animals because they like the people but realize that people are incompetent at acquiring/hunting their own food. The livers might be the best part, according to the cat.

[Rasputina]

I heard once that cats bring people dead animals because they like the people but realize that people are incompetent at acquiring/hunting their own food. The livers might be the best part, according to the cat.

My cat brings me her stuffed cat and mouse every night at bedtime

[solstice]

pigs are generally very CLEAN animals and defecate in a communal area away from where they sleep and eat. They being said...large hog farms are where you probably get that awful smell. These are super duper concentrated feeding operations. Having worked for the USDA---I can say I've seen them first hand!

I want piggies too...it's on our list. I got bees this year though, so it might be another year or two before we are up and running with hogs.

[JBailey]

Pigs use one area for a bathroom, for the most part. We don't do any poop removal, since they usually have enough space and aren't there very long. They also like to make a mud wallow for when it's hot. We run the sprinkler for them too.

Here's a link to a pic of our pig pen - http://seventreesfarm.files.wordpres...12/07/bbq2.jpg
When the piggies get bigger we'll expand it a little.

[Crabbcakes]

pigs are generally very CLEAN animals and defecate in a communal area away from where they sleep and eat. They being said...large hog farms are where you probably get that awful smell. These are super duper concentrated feeding operations. Having worked for the USDA---I can say I've seen them first hand!

I want piggies too...it's on our list. I got bees this year though, so it might be another year or two before we are up and running with hogs.

Oh, my gosh - there is a hog feeding operation not far from here, coupla' miles or so. The owners set up shop across literally across the road from some folks I know, and now it stinks there 24/7 and they can't sell their house. They were talking about moving already before the hog lot came, and now nobody wants the place... ugh. On bad days you can smell it way before you even get up their hill. Those poor pigs. (and the folks across the road)

[RitaRose]

Oh, my gosh - there is a hog feeding operation not far from here, coupla' miles or so. The owners set up shop across literally across the road from some folks I know, and now it stinks there 24/7 and they can't sell their house. They were talking about moving already before the hog lot came, and now nobody wants the place... ugh. On bad days you can smell it way before you even get up their hill. Those poor pigs. (and the folks across the road)

We had the opposite problem out here. They decided to build tract houses right by the pig farm, and people bought them wihout researching what was around them or freaking just smelling the air, so then they expected the pig farm to either shut down, move, or modify their operations so much that they would go out of business.

Stupid people.

[solstice]

JBailey...I've heard that the pigs will literally till the area you pen them into...yes? We have a gorgeous field,planted to native warm season grasses that I would hate to sacrifice for pigs rooting.

[JBailey]

JBailey...I've heard that the pigs will literally till the area you pen them into...yes? We have a gorgeous field,planted to native warm season grasses that I would hate to sacrifice for pigs rooting.

LOL! That's exactly why we pen our piggies where we do. Free tilling If the area is too big, they root up certain spots and leave the rest. So we start small and expand as they dig.

Our current pair have been here 24 hours and already made a big dent in the nettles.

[The Return of Dado]

i haven't killed anything or anyone in a while (joke), but i remember when i was a child, and this is a story i've told on this forum many years ago, i remember when i was a child and my dad and some other people from the village slaughtered a bull. i watched as they did this, and i had the privalege of eating the testicles. they gave me the testicles because this is a great honor, so the child should eat them.

hunting is in my future, for sure.