Who here has raised pigs?

Ground Up
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Noted :clap:

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Thatā€™s 25 pounds shy of my dog

Jesus

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Our hogs went 13 months. Finished beautifully

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No bacon? Wtf, Iā€™ll take those bellies and jowls!

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@Dr.stanky key word being most. I plan on keeping what bacon there is, how could I not! Bacon is one of my favorites. But i donā€™t plan on saving pork chops or anything like thatā€¦

Also stoked for all the bones to feed to the dogs.

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Lol, I figured. If you can pass up bacon from your own pig, something is very wrong with you. Or the pig. :joy:

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Ours is popping for used or free gear, thats about 90%.

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ok to cook a little pig. if a boy need
to have balls cut off at least a month.
if not it will be gamey tasting. female
pigs are ok to be little and cooked.

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You donā€™t do it once a year for the nutritional value of live prey ? If not, how do you supplement?

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You ever seen Babe?

Your runt could be a sheep-pig!

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How much a pack?

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Itā€™s still a whole prey item every time, and contains (98%) the same nutrition as if it were alive (losing a bit in the freezer). I will be breeding rabbits soon and will be offering fresh killed to my snakes when available.

Giving live food items bigger than baby rodents in the reptile world is like open blasting with butane in the extraction world. Yeah some people still do it, but itā€™s old school and severely frowned upon especially with high value animals.

Some people do give large boids (pythons & boas) dietary variety by way of whole chickens, pigs, guinea pigs, and pygmy goats occasionally, but generally thereā€™s no snake supplements or treats. Most other reptiles and amphibians need calcium and vitamin powder added to their food, like I give my tortoise, but nothing for snakes.

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My pigs lived on compost-worthy scraps. Do you really give them meat?

(other than to get rid of the teeth and other identifiable parts)

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I have read not to give them meat. I donā€™t plan to. The dogs or chickens will continue to eat that. Haha

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We always threw meat in a bucket with holes punched in the side far away from the house. The chickens eat the maggots through the hoes.

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I have read about something similar to that! Never done it. The one I read about (specifically soldier fly larva) had a super gnarly consumption rate, that I just didnā€™t have enough scrap for.

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Soldier fly frass contains the best organic humus/chitosan/silica ratio for biostimulants.

I would buy a farm if I could for organic cannabis production.

/salt farmer ate up about organic biostimulants

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I love that shit. I used it in my soil on the last outdoor garden I did. As well as many before that. Solid stuff.

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I will regale you all day about biostimulants to make your cannabis stand out in a vertical market place. We can talk about humic acid for soil building and cytokinin dominant kelp until you are out of breath.

There are 2 markets that arenā€™t being utilized for the best cannabis: 1. insect frass with humus/chitosan/silica and 2. fulvic acid with fulvic, amino and organic acids to prevent stress.

These are my market predictions for cannabis biostimulants the next 5 years going forward.

EDIT: Try corn steep liquor, gypsum, fulvic or insect frass with your organic grow. I guarantee the decision is going to come down to your iron consumption.

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Corn steep is amazing shit. I have a 50lb bag of it in the shed right now. I use literally everything you are talking about. Really makes the veggie garden pop off.

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