Posted by Donald Lehman on November 20, 2015 at 16:30:47 from (172.77.9.124):
In Reply to: Butcher Shops posted by 37Chief on November 20, 2015 at 08:12:40:
We buy our feed from the store, and feed all of our food scraps, excess garden produce and such to the pigs. We have one of two local shops butcher them. One is a bit highter priced than the other, but they both d a good job. If you send the hogs to slaughter at the right time, it's much cheaper than buying meat at a supermarket. Once you get a pig above 200 lbs. it doesn't take long for them to eat enough to really close the gap between home raised and store purchased. We have purchased four sets of pigs from 4 different breeders and the last breeder we purchased from has the most feed efficient pigs by a long shot. Some guys know how to breed efficient pigs and some don't. Any way you look at it, once they get over 200 lbs., they start to eat a lot of feed in a short time.
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