Introducing Abraham and George. 8 week old York/Hamp cross. We bought these two feeder pigs for $50 a piece from a pig farmer in Culver. He had over 80 piglets running around in the barn. His farm wasn't beautiful, but he had lots of pigs and at the right price! These two barrows weigh somewhere around 25 pounds each and will be butcher hogs when they reach 225-250 pounds in about four months. We are hoping to really track the feeding and weight gain of these two so that we can get a better picture of the cost involved in raising a true feeder weight pig to butcher weight. This will help us to know what we need to be selling pork at per pound (and whether or not the cost to raise will be prohibitive to selling).
K is interested in doing 4-H, so we may end up using these guys for that. The only real difference in raising for home butcher and raising for 4-H is the feed. With 4-H, you are working toward a weight goal at a specific time. We will have to use a higher protein feed for 4-H to get these guys up to weight in time for Fair. We'll see how it goes.
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