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pigs

Home Grown Pork

February 12, 2011 by Darren

The pigs finally came home from the butcher. We received back 74 kilograms of porky goodness per pig – that’s a lot of meat to have sitting in front of you!

Posted in: Keeping Animals, Preparing Food Tagged: abattoir, butcher, butchering, freezer, meat, pigs, pork

Taking The Pigs To The Abattoir

February 9, 2011 by Darren

The pigs have finally reached a good baconer size, and are ready to head off to the abattoir.

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: abattoir, butchering, jamberoo, pigs, tahmoor

Pig Tractors For Clearing Land

February 5, 2011 by Darren

If you want to clear a large area of land with little effort, you can’t beat a pig tractor!

Posted in: Growing Food, Keeping Animals Tagged: chicken tractor, chickens, garden beds, Permaculture, pig tractor, pigs, vegetable garden, weeds

Weekly Roundup – Mulch Paths, Tinyhouses, and More Pigs

November 29, 2010 by Darren

Items of note I read this week: mulched garden paths, sub-acre agriculture, tiny houses, a DIY first aid kit, and lots of backyard pig-raising.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: garden beds, gardening, mulch, pigs, sustainability

Swill Feeding Pigs In Las Vegas

November 22, 2010 by Darren

A must-see video of BBC’s Ethical Man visiting a pig farm in Las Vegas, where the pigs are raised on restaurant leftovers and then fed back to the restaurant patrons.

Posted in: Keeping Animals, Video Tagged: pigs

Weekly Roundup – Worming Pigs and Solar Nests

November 19, 2010 by Darren

What I’ve been reading about this week – worming pigs naturally, butchering pigs, sustainable display homes, KiamaSphere, Book Depository, modern homesteading, how to freeze eggs, and the solar nest.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: books, chickens, eggs, Kiama, pigs, podcast, Shellharbour, sustainability, weekly roundup

How To Weigh A Pig

November 15, 2010 by Darren

You can get a very good estimate of a pig’s weight by running a few simple measurements through a mathematical formula. Here’s how to do it.

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: farmyard animals, pigs

Pig Information From NSW DPI

October 25, 2010 by Darren

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) has a lot of really good pig keeping information available for free. Here’s my collection of links to their resources.

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: Australia, nsw government, pigs

Feeding Swill To Pigs

October 16, 2010 by Darren

There was a little bit of discussion about feeding scraps to pigs on my original entry about our pig project. There are quite strict laws around the feeding of scraps and waste to pigs in Australia (and many other countries), and you really need to make sure you’re doing the right thing. The NSW Department … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals, Preparing Food, Waste Tagged: Australia, farmyard animals, pigs, Waste

Electric Fence Keeps Pigs In!

September 26, 2010 by Darren

I finally got to install my electric fence yesterday morning, and we haven’t had any more trouble from the pigs. For the electric fence energiser, I bought a Thunderbird BD-20. This is a neat little 2 km “strip grazer”, powered by 4x D-cell batteries. I don’t have mains power near the pig pen because it’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: electric fence, fencing, pigs
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