Posted by Cory Schmidt on December 04, 2017 at 19:28:11 from (74.213.208.131):
In Reply to: Re: Raising Pigs posted by Another B Puller on December 04, 2017 at 16:21:36:
I'm up here in Wi, 10-15 below is a about the coldest I've seen. If you want to try a heated floor it go for it, won't help much. The floor heats under them, nothing to keep them warm as the heat raises and off their backs... as the bedding would cover and insulate. Concrete is naturally cooler under cover, so no need for that. The pigs we have had on concrete were in the barn(protected) and never worried about em(not sure about exposed though). If it gets to hot just a take a hose and mist em down every so often.
That batch that was out in the open was bare dirt for a floor. Come out in dead of winter, shelter empty...bang the feed bucket a few times a big mound would raise and break into pigs and straw.
Now feed ration that's a good question....a couple buckets of mixed grain(corn, wheat, oats.....). A hay bale once in a while, bucket of bread (we have a source) once in a while. any produce scraps (the scrap from prepping, stuff that's to soft or rotten to use.....)..... In short anything and everything gets tossed in the pig pen at some point.
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