Hogs
TRUTH VS MYTH… Idaho Pastured Pigs
Homesteady: TRUTH VS MYTH… Idaho Pastured Pigs
7/16/2020 by Austin Martin, Squash Hollow Farm
Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=109802435
Episode: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/WPCM2016906615.mp3
The IPP… the IDAHO PASTURED PIG. It has made quite a lot of noise in the homesteading world.
There are a lot of big claims surrounding it. What is fact and what is myth?
Today we share an interview on the channel with Mouse Creek Farm who has been raising these pigs for years.
Kirstin answers lots of our IPP questions including do you have to supplement their diet or can they live off pasture alone? Do they ever root? And how is their meat production and quality?
The Farm and Hammer YouTube channel I often watch recently got some of those pasture pigs. While no pig is a ruminatent – you can’t stick them on grass exclusively and be they be healthy, pasture pigs can cut your feed bill by fifty percent, and eat some of the noxious plants that cows won’t touch.
Apparently the key to pasture pigs is making sure they have plenty of mineral including salt and rotate pastures frequently. Then they won’t destroy the pasture rooting it up in search of minerals.
Pigs as livestock interest me a lot when I eventually own my own homestead. Good bacon, good pork chops and other cuts. Not to mention a good way to recycle food waste and recycle all that paper trash I get in the mail as bedding.
My neighbors growing up had pigs on their homesteads. And it seems like a lot of people I follow on the internet raise hogs for meat as a hobby. They’re really quite fascinating animals. I should get some more books out of the library about raising pigs.
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It’s a rough life on the farm 😂
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A History of Pigs in America – Food – The Austin Chronicle
Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal
How Texas is fighting back – Sports Illustrated
For millions of years, as pigs snorted and snuffed their way across the planet, evolving and learning to dodge gray wolves and tigers and coyotes and alligators, they were almost assuredly safe from any potential threats from the sky.
Then they arrived in Texas, where in addition to the rare predatory large mammal, a wild pig today might be forced to evade, for example, a cascade of 5.56-caliber bullets fired from a hundred-odd feet above by an AR‑15 semiautomatic rifle in the hands of some adventurous tourist from Pennsylvania or Mexico or Australia. Unfortunately for said pig, evolution has not yet blessed him with the neck flexibility needed to look up. Thus, he hears only the thundering roar of a helicopter before it all goes down. He’ll run around, searing bursts piercing the ground around him, until inevitably he’s struck, usually a number of times, left to die in a scrub of brush or a field of cotton or a row of cornstalks. The chopper will fly away, only to move on to some other unsuspecting, ground-focused pig.
New Pork Ads Turn Heads in Des Moines International Airport | Pork Business
“Pork: You can’t make it from plants unless you feed them to a pig first.”
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) will be running digital ads in the Des Moines International Airport featuring this slogan starting Jan. 27 and running through Feb. 10. This line, in addition to “Pork: It comes from a pig, not Silicon Valley,” will help raise awareness of plant-based products violating labeling law.