Posted by Roy in Ga on September 15, 2009 at 09:00:12 from (75.89.35.112):
As some may remember I asked questions about breeding pigs and got a sow from my dad. She had 16 lost 1 at birth I gave 1 runt away and she raised the remaining 14 just fine. I started weening at 3 weeks as they were dragging her down really bad. The local high school has a Agg. program and I got involved with the teacher on the breeding. He helped me sale 9 of the piglets and could have sold all of them but I wanted to keep a few for meat.I allowed him to take 2 of my males and use them as a demonstration on castration and I helped in front of the class. there are currently 6 of the pigs out of my sow up there with two being mine. I am sponsoring them for some of the students who couldn't buy or afford to feed them. They plan on showing them and their responsibility is to feed and care for them until the last show then I will pay for 1/2 the feed bill and "buy them back" as they have to own the pigs to show them but the price was low so they could afford to do it. I enjoy watching the students learn about this because we didn't have this program when I attended the same school system. I was at the school checking on the pigs and got to see the students (some who had never been on a tractor) try to run a obstacle course where they had to simulate backing into a shed with 6" clearance on each side to hook to a implement,pull through a curve,then back the implement back in, unhook, and pull out the gate in under 5 min to qualify for competition. Needless to say I never got so tickled from a tractor driver as those students made me.I plan on attending the shows with the students and maybe get my girls to tag along. I really have enjoyed this and will do it again if I can.
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