Bacon on the way…
….well, not yet. First these piglets have a vacation in store for them at Thistle Hill farm. And a new feeding ground, too. This picture was taken at Deb and Curry Parker’s farm near Culpeper, Virginia. We are Tamworth fans and we think they raise the best!
We have been fattening our pigs on pasture….with plenty of trees…but now we’re fencing sections of our woods so that they’ll have an unlimited supply of acorns. Right now they’re in a big pen with electric wire around the fence….learning that that tiny wire means business.
Incidentally, their predecessors are at the abattoir and we should have sausages, chops and bacon available very soon.
2 Comments
mike ortwein
Once your pigs have had an electric fence experience, do you find it hard to move them past were the fence had once been? Do you let them in with the cows to eat their poop?
David
We’ve only used electric fence once: to keep new piglets close to their food and water for a week or so. After that they roamed freely over a wire-fenced pasture of about five acres. We haven’t ever moved into the woods, as we will now, but others I’ve visited don’t seem to have a problem. In fact, I’ve seen them led quite a distance with a bucket of feed and even cross a road.
As for what they eat when they’re in pasture with our cows: we have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on that.