I farrow to finish Hamp/York cross. None of mine are confinement or run in farrowing crates. I lose a few every once in a while but you quickly learn ways around it.
I would discourage picking up a sow for breeding. Hogs are social animals and she will tear things up out of boredom without friends to chew the fat with. She will be tougher to handle because everything is "her" way and she doesn't have to get along with others. You are also left with a huge animal that's only good for sausage after you realize cutting piglets and culling runts isn't fun. I've bred carefully to get sows with great mothering characteristics, easy handling ability, and great litter/survivor ratio. If you buy someone's cull you don't know what you get.
Get on Craig's list. Buy some weaned at five or six weeks. Bring them home and ring their noses so they don't destroy your land (or maybe that's not a big deal, either way), and feed them free choice. In five months you will have great meat and have friends crawling out of the woodwork to get some meat from you. There's just no substitute for hogs raised on dirt.
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