For my first Farm Friday post I figured I'd explain our hog operation. My Farmer and I have a 2400 head finishing site.
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| Photo obviously taken during the summer, way too cold to take a photo today... |
As you can see the site has two buildings and an office on it. Our buildings have an auto-sort system in them where the hogs walk through a scale to get to the "food court" area.
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| My Farmer checking the feeders in the "Food Court" |
When they are done in the food court they can leave and hang out in a "lounge" area.
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| Lots of space for the pigs to explore |
When the hogs are near a market weight of 270 pounds we turn on the scales a couple days before they are scheduled to go to market. The scales will sort out the hogs that are ready to go to market into a separate lounge area than the ones that still need some time. This reduces some of our sorting labor in preparation to bring pigs to market.
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| Our dog Bailey helping with chores |
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