John Malayter

Peter, exactly! This is why I'm asking for a stainable way to account accomplish this.

This is my beginning plan ---- So let's say I have 8 pigs ( on the low side) per month per sow, after 6-8 weeks these get weened and the sow go's back to the pasture and the babies get moved to where they cannot see mamma, next month new sow and new babies, six weeks those babies get moved with this other littleuns and so on.

After an as of yet unknown time frame these littleuns get moved to a new paddock to make way for the new batch of new-be's and this process will be to keep the pigs moving to new paddocks/pastures until they get to size and sold.

The only thing that bothers me is keeping them cooped up for the 6 weeks but those babies are such a pain in the a$$ and get into everything so its probably not bad to train them to a hot wire while they're confined.

Thoughts?

I'm in east tn and have done this in the winter for a long time. The math is reasonable if even a little low, that's my question. How do you keep production up or even expand and keep it sustainable? I've farrowed plenty in the depths of winter with no more than truck toppers and maybe a heat lamp if they're close enough and surprisingly I've lost very little from the cold but most from getting layed on. However I cannot continue to work this way particularly if I want to sell 4-5 300 pigs every month.

Ok, right now I'm moving about 2-4 pigs per month and raising them behind electric wire on pasture paddocks that are rotated when the need arises. I feed them a non GMO diet as well as as many scraps that I can find. Right now I have 2 bred sows, one boar, 2 - 175 lbs pigs for inventory and 5, 5-6 week old sow and cut babies. Really not many!

I currently have very little infrastructure, house the pigs in old truck cabs that can be moved but loading is a challenge and has to built and rebuilt depending where the pigs are at the time.

Hello all, long time lurker but I do have a question.

We raise pasture pigs on our small 0rganic farm and its apparent that I need more inventory i.e. Pigs! Right now everything is on the small paddocks and moved when we can, the property can handle about 15 large pigs but if we sell 3-4 per month those don't last long so here's my question.

We as farmers don't have expendable income to put in a large facility to farrow and raise these animals so are their any ideas on how to up my number of animals and keep my facility sustainable and cheap to build. Ps. I have access to a lot of woods on our property........

My goal? I'd like to farrow 1 pig per month, giving me 8-16 piglets per birth, I'd keep as many piglets as possible for 6-8 months up until processing.....if this makes any sense! I would then have enough pigs on the ground at any given time to satisfy my customers.

Now I don't want to confine these animals however ther will home confinement with these number, strictly for farrow, gestation etc.

Thanks for the hospitality and hope you'all have some good ideas

John