Pigs

We aim to please….

….nothing’s too good for a Thistle Hill animal.  It turned very cold the other night and so we put out a bale of hay for our pigs to burrow into for warmth.  Today it’s sunny and the temperature is rising so they simply plopped down on top.  That’s our new boar and his three sows.  What’s the saying?  “It’s a pig’s life.”

Any comparison between the way pigs are raised at Thistle Hill and your industrial pork?

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One Comment

  • michael ortwein

    Each sow has a hut, so does the bore. My huts have white aluminum roofs, a ramp that serve also as a door. To move a pig to a new location, food is placed in the hut to get the pig inside to eat (they sleep there every night), and then I lock the door/ramp. The huts are built to be lifted with forks, so now I can move the pig where ever I want. Straw is put inside for bedding. The hut is where they have their babies.

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