Ok I admit it I grew up as a farm girl-part 3 pigs

Yes we had pigs on our dairy farm in Wisconsin. Our pigs had a smaller barn they were able to go in when they wanted to and we kept the doors closed during really cold days. We also had a fenced area where they could be outside in. Now our farm was over 360 acres so when I say a fenced in area it was a couple of acres big. Animals on a farm needs to be able to move around freely with ample room. Now when I say we had pigs it was not just a couple of pigs it was around 40 if I remember right.

Now having that many pigs on the farm means we also had a lot of piglets. The runts of the litter of piglets don't always survive. Sometimes the mother pig would kill the runts of the litter. Why do they the mother pigs do that? The runt is smaller and are considered weaker than the rest of the litter. Sometimes they would get laid on. Know my Dad would take the runt piglet into the house and put it in a wooden box that we would bottle feed until it was time to ween the piglets. And then the runt of the litter was retuned with the other pigs and would survive.

We would feed the pigs food we raised on the farm and food leftovers we had from the food we ate at the house. And they had the fenced in areas that they could graze on. When the pigs got bigger we sold sell some and would butcher 1 for food for the family to eat.

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If your interested the links of my other blogs about growing up on a farm.

https://steemit.com/homesteading/@coffeetime/ok-i-admit-it-i-grew-up-as-a-farm-girl

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https://steemit.com/homesteading/@coffeetime/chickens-on-the-farm-i-am-still-a-farm-girl-at-heart

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