Eating Like a Pig

Everyone has heard the term, "eating like a pig", well after having some pigs you can understand how that term comes about. Now pigs are different than other animals in that they do eat until they are full and will then stop eating. Other animals will actually just keep on eating and it can cause death. Actually once we wean the piglets from their mothers we will then have a feeder with feed in it and they can eat as much as they want. The mothers then will be on a ration feeder, because just like humans they can tend to eat too much and get FAT! (But I can't blame them because I enjoy food also). If you look at the picture here you will see the little ones eating some feed and just making a mess! They eat like pigs because they just get it everywhere. The pigs right now are eating feed and also still nursing from their mothers. We will actually wean them between 6-8 weeks of age, instead of 2 weeks which a lot of confinement operations do. We just want it to be as natural as possible.

The weather is actually much better today and it looks like the week ahead will be much warmer! Lets hope so, because cold and snow is not any fun for working on the farm!