posted 9 years ago
sweet! I don't see you having any real problems then. I'm in the process of building a new pasture for our hogs.
I'm planting Tall Fescue, Bermuda, Rye grass, Rape, Alfalfa, Seven top and purple turnip, carrots, kale, comfrey, side oats, barley, brassicas to start the pasture.
This will give our hogs a wide variety of food stuffs that have plenty of nutrient value for them.
I will be using a product called Sea-90 for mineral supplement on a free choice basis. (we also use this in the gardens and orchards because everything just taste so much better because of it)
Most all the pigs and hogs I've seen (we have several farms here) adapt to pasture raising pretty well. One guy just got away from pens and his hogs had never seen pasture previously, they adapted so quickly I figured he had started them on grasses prior to his tearing down his pen barn.
He informed me that was not the case, he had just decided he wasn't going to fix the tornado damage to his barn after the 2014 event and finally got around to taking it down last year. He has Berkshires and Spots (around 300 total) and they are all happy eating pasture.