Tag: pigs
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Thank Full !!
November 26, 2021 What a wonderful day yesterday was. Plenty of great tasting food, some family , some friends and a good day to pause and reflect. Our hogs are ready for freezer camp. They have grown nicely and are now eating only our farm raised ear corn. The weather…
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Farm to Fork
July 17, 2018 Several years ago, a young man stopped to visit with me. He was full of excitement about living a homesteading lifestyle. We had many talks about farming, gardening and family. He was a well read man, who knew what he wanted. It was easy for me to…
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A.I. for Breeding Hogs Does Work
May 25, 2017 Our red sow was bred last time using artificial insemination. I was a bit skeptical at first but my son and his friend convinced me that it would work good. We had recently sold our boar and had not replaced him yet. Jake and Brian, told me…
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Home Butchering
December 15, 2016 Home butchering is best done on a cold day. Using nature’s refrigeration only makes sense! This sow was a bad mother, who killed her babies.(It happens sometimes when farrowing in nests) I have no need for a mother such as her, but we needed sausage. I dressed…
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Hickory Nuts and Ear Corn
October 15, 2014 Our gilts are out on a wooded pasture with a boar. They are enjoying freedom, hickory nuts and ear corn. I guess they must be enjoying each other too, because I see the incriminating hoof marks on their backs…and that is a very good thing! The pasture…
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