Backyard Hog Raising

Despite the crises facing the swine industry still many people are venturing in this enterprise.

Backyard hog raising. Its popularity is evidently seen among backyards of rural families. You can learn how to make your own ham sausage as well as delicacies like salami chorizo and paté. You have to keep your pigs safe healthy and fed. Omnivores are able to eat a varied diet and thrive.

An average filipino family usually raises a small number of pigs to augment their daily needs. Backyard hog raising tips posted in agri by entre pinoys on june 11 2013 in almost every rural household in the philippines hog raising is a very popular enterprise such that there is a proliferation of backyard producers which dominates the swine industry. Add to favorites. Raising pigs in your backyard is an excellent way to feed your family and there are lots of delicious home made pork products that you can make from home reared pigs.

Hog raising in the philippines has been a profitable business for filipinos through the decades. Because you re acquiring living things. Furthermore raising pigs can be an educational experience for the whole family and backyard farmers often find raising their own meat very rewarding and tastier than supermarket meats. In just one generation natural pig farming as a means of raising pigs for meat disappeared from rural america due to the industrialization of the hog business.

So you have this great idea to put some of your wooded lot to use by raising hogs. Pigs aren t always the first animal people think of when they consider backyard livestock but raising backyard pigs can be an easy way to create an inexpensive source of pork and bacon. You must keep your pigs contained in some way. Raising backyard pigs is an interesting process.

Most homesteaders are raising a hog or two for the family s meat needs. Farm life find adventure homesteading. While pigs in the backyard may be a viable option for those with larger spaces and prior experience many homeowners may find the cost of raising swine to be overwhelming. This doesn t mean that feeding the backyard pig has to be expensive.

Hogs are now raised in mega hog houses by corporate farms. Home raising backyard hogs. I had the same idea three years ago and have not regretted a moment of it. What you feed the hog will contribute to the quality of the pork product you eventually serve to your family.

By kay wolfe there was a time when every rural household had a pig or two they were fattening for the winter.