[barmag25]

For folks interested. Some good tips. I posted the whole blog post.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t want to raise pigs.

I want to eat pigs.

That is all.

[barmag25]

ping

[Mark17]

My wife raises pigs too. There is money to be made in it.

[ConorMacNessa]

Mmmmmmmmm!

Years ago we had pigs on my Dad's farm - he was a hobby farmer after retiring as a Professor at Johns Hopkins. We named the little darlings Chardonnay and Cabernet, and wow did they taste great!

Nothing like a pig roast - Dad built a good, if somewhat basic pit. Our Oriental friends - his techs and students from Taiwan - were right at home. I can't recall eating better pork in my life.

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[Veggie Todd]

Substitute the word “husband” for “pig” in this article, and my wife will agree with it 100%.

[Oratam]

b4l

[TEXOKIE]

In addition to the information contained in your post, I would think that raising pigs would have the additional benefit of rendering your property unattractive to the MooseLimbs in our midst.

[yarddog]

It is a very vague memory as we moved from the farm when I was only four but I do remember us raising and processing pigs.

Daddy would shoot them right between the eyes with a Remington model 513. He used shorts because he didn’t want to mess up the hogs head cheese ingredients.

I remember scalding them in a huge iron pot and then the hair just came right off. Watching them butchering the pig was interesting if a little gory. I remember Mother washing out the intestines for chitlins and sausage.

The most pleasant part was when I would open the door to the smoke house and the aroma was just great. Hams hanging, loops of sausage also hanging. Cloth bags holding other parts. Sides of bacon etc. We did not have electricity out in the country and that was probably the only way to preserve the meat.

[eldoradude]

Neighbor two houses down raised pigs one summer. Absolutely delicious...although their daughter was a little upset at first when she found out where the pork chops came from - she came around when the bacon was served. :D

[spokeshave]

Woolly pigs

Mangalitsa is a breed of pig grown especially in Hungary and the Balkans known also as a curly-hair hog. It belongs to European unimproved lard-type breeds (as well as Iberian Black, Sicilian Black, and Alentejana pigs) that are descended directly from wild boar populations.

For chefs, the once-rare pig also happens to be one of the most sought-after breeds in the world. Now Winkler Wooly Pigs (winklerwoolypigs.com) has one of the largest operations in the United States

[molson209]

Make sure you have ,No Sense Of Smell, trust me

[workerbee]

“Pig” seems such an awful term for an animal that gives so much yumminess.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Bonus: they’re muzzie repellant too.

[yarddog]

I remember Mother telling me that one tires of beef much quicker than pork. Chicken is in between.

[Iowa Granny]

I spent the better part of the last 50 years on a “Pig Farm”, not to be confused with 4 hog panels in the back yard with a few bags of wood chips for bedding. Let’s make it very clear, it isn’t as easy as this fellow makes it sound. The pigs are going to get out of that pen and root around in your landscaping. Unless you remove the manure every day and move it away it’s going to draw flies. LOTS of flies. I could go on and on,, just know it isn’t an easy thing to do, which is why not many people do it.

[Lady Heron]

You also need a nose plug.

[Rebelbase]

Any pig raising folk have experience with coyotes and pigs? I’d like to raise a couple but don’t think an electric fence would be enough to keep out the vermin that roam here.

[Tucker39]

Although I’m an old over the hill city slicker now, I still love hogs. My FFA Project was Yorkshire hogs; bred (pregnant) gilts (young females) that farrow (give birth). After the pigs are weaned, feed them up to market weight and send them to slaughter. And then hopefully you’ll find out that you made a little profit.

[CodeToad]

[Slyfox]