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re: How to care for a baby hog???
Posted on 8/4/14 at 7:47 am to TexasTiger01
Posted on 8/4/14 at 7:47 am to TexasTiger01
Ask 34
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Posted on 8/4/14 at 7:51 am to Yewkindewit
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Feed it as you are now seems right. Some vet bills and sentimental attachment later and you will have a big stinky hawg/slop area/pigshit sty. Sorry, just trying to help now for what's coming
Yea, once he gets a little bigger and is trough feeding he will be staying in a pen next to my uncles's chicken coop just down the road. He's currently in the kennel in my garage, dat ain't gonna last long. But it's good and warm in the garage so it's keeping him comfortable for now.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 7:59 am to TexasTiger01
H e fun with that. But I will be honest. I would never mess around with one hog. The work versus reward is not there. I raised hogs (60 sows) farrow to finish for a while an they are a pain.
The tips around are right - especially ear protection when cutting.
It will be fun for a while hopefully your enthusiasm will last about 160 days because that is how long roughly it will take to get that hog big enough to butcher.
The tips around are right - especially ear protection when cutting.
It will be fun for a while hopefully your enthusiasm will last about 160 days because that is how long roughly it will take to get that hog big enough to butcher.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:05 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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The tips around are right - especially ear protection when cutting.
Having grown up raising pigs it can only be described as a pitch so high you will feel it rattle your soul.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:11 am to KingRanch
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Ask 34
This.
Or on second thought, don't. His baby pig drown in a mop bucket, entirely unassisted.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:15 am to AlxTgr
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Sal Here it is again. What is this?
I thought my sarcasm was evident with my use of "board" in that sentence as well.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:21 am to tenfoe
FYI you spelled Sals last name wrong.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:27 am to TexasTiger01
Better call Sal
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:30 am to kingbob
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Better call Sal
I just spoke with Sal, he sends his love....
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:40 am to TexasTiger01
Well he can't be considered a suckling because he's off Mommas milk but when he gets to 10 pounds roast him whole. The crunchy ears are phenomenal.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 8:47 am to TexasTiger01
Make some rice 
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:00 am to TexasTiger01
Don't let the water in 5 gallon bucket get to low is about all I know.
RIP. Roscoe.
RIP. Roscoe.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:14 am to TexasTiger01
put a rubber band around it's nuts and it will castrate the easy way.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:35 am to tenfoe
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3rd, you sure it's a "HE"? You keep saying "he" like it's a Board. Might be a Sal. If it's a Board, cut his nuts off today.
Get the Mrs. to take off his nuts like it was a goat
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:39 am to weadjust
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:50 am to tenfoe
quote:I had not had my coffee yet and was hoping I had walked into an entire vernacular I had never encountered before.
I thought my sarcasm was evident with my use of "board" in that sentence as well.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:00 am to tenfoe
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Pro Tip #429 from Tenfoe: When castrating pigs, there is no such thing as "too much" ear protection.
This...x1000.
Cut a BIG boar late in his life. Paw Paw was in the pen with him also cutting his cutters with a pair of side cutters (pliers)....and dad and I were outside the pen. Dad had his pocketknife and I had the wheel bearing grease and the salt, mixing it up to pack it.
Ole boar got it from both ends. That was the most horrifying screaming ear-piercing horrible sound. But then again...if someone was breaking my teeth with a pair of pliers and cutting my nut sack and packing it with salted grease...I'd be screaming too.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:00 am to AlxTgr
Just curious...
What's the end game for the pig when it grows?
Are you going to let it die of old age?
Butcher it?
(gulp) let it go?
Now, I won't stop you from trying to raise the thing. Pursuit of happiness and all... but I wouldn't bother with a wild hog. To me, the only good wild hog is a dead one.
What's the end game for the pig when it grows?
Are you going to let it die of old age?
Butcher it?
(gulp) let it go?
Now, I won't stop you from trying to raise the thing. Pursuit of happiness and all... but I wouldn't bother with a wild hog. To me, the only good wild hog is a dead one.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:39 am to TexasTiger01
Treat him just like the dog. They are actually awesome pets when you get them that early. We had a 300 lb pig that we raised from around that age and it would come running to us when we called it and we just pet it.
We feed it from a bottle at a young age with whole milk. It really was one of the best pets I've had
We feed it from a bottle at a young age with whole milk. It really was one of the best pets I've had
Posted on 8/4/14 at 11:05 am to TexasTiger01
quote:Why the frick would they want to let it back into the wild? Kill as many as possible and its still not enough to put a dent. We don't need anyone "saving" these things unless you want to keep it as a pet
They tried to find the Sow (AKA- Mamma Hog)but never could find her to return the baby,
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