Pig’s on pasture is possible. Our Duroc Pig’s are pastured from the time their weaned (approx. 6 week’s old), until there are taken to the processor. Their have been allot of 100% grass-fed Pig’s ...

Here’s a tricky riddle someone asked me the other day…”How do you keep the pigs from wrecking your pasture in really wet weather?” Turns out you can successfully graze pigs on pasture, even when it ...

No, currently it is not. It would be impossible to pasture-raise pigs on any sort of scale. They would require 1/4 acre for every 8-9 pigs. Hogs/pigs are not grazing animals like cows or sheep; they ...

Raising pigs according to the industrial farming model is a study in homogeny. In industry parlance, “quality control” means having all the same pigs fed all the same food while housed in uniformly ...

We had thrown the idea around for years of raising pigs. We first talked about raising them for meat production but didn’t know if we would be able to complete the process start-to-finish. Alan didn’t ...

A part of Bob Mattie died when his workshop went up in flames in 2012. It was the part that had toiled for 26 years as a cabinet-maker and trim carpenter. In a matter of minutes, all his machinery and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The objective of this experiment was to study the impact of free-range pigs foraging on mountain pasture vegetation. Pigs (15 week-old, mean ...