10/26/2023 0 Comments I'm a grown little man![]() There is Poland China, Berkshire, Yorkshire, Poland China, Duroc, Chester White, Hampshire, Landrace, and obscure breeds like Hereford to pick from. In earlier times, when cream was separated from raw milk, they feasted on skim milk and stinky slop kept in a barrel. For the most part the hogs ate ear corn shoveled from a wagon, apple and tomato peelings, and occasionally ground feed. Sows and feeder pigs roamed in a woven-wire fence and wallowed in mud. When market prices were low, the herd was eliminated and rebuilt when a price rebound happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() In those days, Dad was an in-and-outer when it involved hog production.
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