Patience with hogs? Huh? I found, after much practice, that a prod is only useful after the hog's shoulders are in the chute and then you just give it a little boost.
A lot of the big hog companies don't allow prods anymore. They use rattle paddles instead. When you rattle the paddle it sounds like a rattle snake and most of the time the hog pays attention. My son used to haul hogs owned by a company that doesn't allow prods. At the packing plant there was a 'humane' officer watching at all time while the hogs were being unloaded. The trucker was supposed to keep the hogs from wedging in the door and stuff like that, to avoid bruising. But if a trucker was having trouble getting the hogs out, someone from the plant would go into the truck with a prod and the hogs WOULD come out. The humane officer was suddenly nowhere in sight. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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