New pigs and pen

[jtcmedic]

Got some new pigs and put together a new pen for them in the last week[attachment=0][/attachment][attachment=1][/attachment][attachment=2][/attachment]

[jtcmedic]

here in the new house.[attachment=0][/attachment]

[herbhome]

Is that a concrete floor?

[jtcmedic]

Yes, then we finish in the woods for last month in electric fence under the oaks. 

[BeeMaster2]

JT,
Are you using this to fatten them up for butchering or are you going to breed them?
Jim Altmiller

[herbhome]

nothing like acorn fattened pork! 

[jtcmedic]

JT,
Are you using this to fatten them up for butchering or are you going to breed them?
Jim Altmiller

fatten them up. A lot of coyotes in my area and don?t want the escaping.

[BeeMaster2]

So what are you doing to keep the coyotes from getting them?
Jim Altmiller

[jtcmedic]

My back 5 is fenced in high field and there pen in in that. Front section had barb wire. So keeping them in the back. First go with pigs my self other then hunting the feral ones last 4 years

[BeeMaster2]

If you are going to continue to do this, you may want to consider building an automatic feed box. My buddy feeds 6 pigs at a time with a feeder he built and an automatic water valve. The feeder is tall and narrow with a small slot at the bottom that allows a little bit of food to go into a tray on the front. I think his holds 300 pounds of feed when full. It would save you a lot of time.
Jim Altmiller

[jtcmedic]

Been looking at making the feeder. Did a 55 gallon water they drink it in 5-6 days gonna put in some plumbing to the pen and pipe in auto water but will have to be prepared for hurricane season, first to lose power last to get it back.

[BeeMaster2]

Same here about the power. I just finished putting power and water to the new turkey house we are building as well as Judy?s garden, shed and the old turkey pen. Rent one of those saws that are nothing but a 24? circular saw. Makes a narrow trench for easy backfill. It cuts the trench real fast.
Jim Altmiller

[jtcmedic]

Pigs still growing about 150lb now [attachment=0][/attachment]

[Ben Framed]

Really nice JC. You have every right to be proud. I like your set up. Would you be interested in trading some of you sausage for some top quality honey?? HAA HAA as you need more honey.   

[jtcmedic]

Really nice JC. You have every right to be proud. I like your set up. Would you be interested in trading some of you sausage for some top quality honey?? HAA HAA as you need more honey.   

Hay I make trades all the time. Just pulled 30lb from a hive. So good for a while. Gonna hope for a nice deer  to mix with it soon.

[Ben Framed]

Really nice JC. You have every right to be proud. I like your set up. Would you be interested in trading some of you sausage for some top quality honey?? HAA HAA as you need more honey.   

Hay I make trades all the time. Just pulled 30lb from a hive. So good for a while. Gonna hope for a nice deer  to mix with it soon.

Sounds good. Good sausage, sugar cured county fresh ham, big homemade biscuits, fresh home churned butter, good fresh just laid big brown eggs, boiled strawberries and fresh honey for the biscuits, move over Cracker Barrel!!!  Oh yes , don?t for get the grits!! 😁😁😁😁

[jtcmedic]

Well the pigs are in the freezer was a long process took 3 days to process after 5 days to ice and age for them all wrapped  up with my wife?s help.[attachment=0][/attachment][attachment=1][/attachment][attachment=2][/attachment]

[The15thMember]

Nice!  Did you do the butchering yourself?  How many lbs. of meat did you get? 

[jtcmedic]

Thanks yes did all the butchering almost 300 lb of meat, we did 50 lb of sausage in 3 different flavors . I used to work as a meat cutter in high school learned a lot looking back it was a great job to learn the skill but at that age I thought it was torture.

[CoolBees]

Very nice! I do all my own butchering. It's a lot of work, but definitely worth it - on several levels. Very nice!