Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, MN
Posts: 4236

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Originally posted by Rob Ellett
I was thinking of raising some pigs for butchering this year, I have some rough grown up pasture, more like woodlot now and would like to have some opinions on what breed would do best on this.
This also led me to thinking about old time feed, thanks keep'em coming.

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I raise a few hogs from time to time...

There is a lot of poor cuts of meat when you butcher a hog, I feed a lot of this to the dogs, Im not sure why, but they dont eat it very well in the summer months.

IMO, hogs have been bred to the point where they just dont grow or do very well unless you pour the corn and protien to them...

If you think your going to save money by raising your own, you would be wrong

Good luck.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Reform, Alabama
Posts: 464

Here is some hogs I grew this summer, they had cut over timber to graze, grass pasture and feed whole corn at night when I called them in to pen them up, turned them out each morning before I went to work


I butchered them Dec 31,2007 all salted down and will smoke them in a couple of more weeks
Hanging wt was 290, 375,460 for sure going to make some good eating for the yr

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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: bronaugh,MO
Posts: 2595

My great grandpa made some of the first commercial dog feed around here in those days. Circa 1920's- 1950's. He bred Bluetick coonhounds when they first became a breed and before.

My mom used to tell us about him making dog feed and hauling it around the Appleton City Mo area to other hunters.

Here is how she told it was made:

Her grandpa had a huge iron vate in the back yard. He would fill it with water and build a fire under it. He added bones and scraps from where ever he could get them. Lame horses, carcasses from hunting, basicly meat and bone from where it could be found depending on the time of year.

That would slow cook for days untill it was basicly mush.

To that he added corn meal and ground oats by the sack fulls. That would cook for a day or so and the last step was adding ash from the fire.

Mom said they stirred the vat, added water, and fed the fire for 3 or 4 days all total. Depending on the size of bones that went in.


When this all cooled it was broken up in chunks and sold by weight. He would make a batch of dog feed every couple weeks.

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