My brother raises hogs small scale. These are some problems he has had. Local lockers won't buy or promote his hogs because they have sources for really cheap rejected butcher sized hogs from area confinement hog operations. Hogs with ruptures, broken leg, whatever. More often than not he has more hogs ready for butcher than he has got sold. If you are going to raise hogs on dirt, then you have to get those kind of hogs to start with. If you put confinement hogs on dirt, you will have all kinds of problems with them. He has actually made more money selling feeder pigs, than feeding them out and selling butcher hogs. I don't know why but people will pay crazy prices for 3 or 4 feeder pigs and feed em all summer rather than buy a butcher hog worth the money. Another thing that happened to him was after he started doing it, 2 or 3 other people in the area got the idea from him and out of the blue started raising some hogs too. The closest outlet he has for selling hogs that he can't get sold locally for butcher is an hour drive. And if you sell there you take some sort of a dock no matter what wether it be low numbers or whatever. My advice is to start out small scale and only take it as far as it will take you.
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