All You Need To Know About Pig Farming
Pig, otherwise known as swine is a specie of animal that is said to be very dirty but reach in meat. Not every one eats pork, to some, they just don’t like it while to others, they do not eat pork for religious reasons. Some part of Christian religion does not eat pork so is Islam. Conversely, some communities eats pork as one of their favourites .
Things to consider while going into pig farming are:
1. Your market
While choosing pig farming as a business, you must consider the environment you are. As stated earlier, there are some religions that forbids pork as edible meat. Starting pig farming in a religious community where pork is forbidden can be very challenging. Your challenges will range from attacks on you and your farm down to where you can sell the animals.
2.Your financial status
Getting the required foods for your big farm can be very challenging, if you are not financially boyant then you must think twice before going into the farming. Pigs eats a lot so you must have at least small amount of money on ground after getting the first set of your piglets on ground.
3.Your structure.
Pigs must be properly housed as they are very destructive. You must have a strong structure to house your pigs if you want to enjoy the farming. Allowing your bigs to roam about may create a lot of problems for you.
How To Farm pigs
There are several technics pig farmers can use in in order to be successful in the Business. In this post, continue reading to understand local and natural ways of farming pigs
1. Get the structure
You can use strong woods, bab wires, irons or blocks to construct big house. The choice of the house for your pigs should depend on your pockets and environments. Which ever material you might want to use, do make sure it is a quality one. make sure the floor of the house is not plastered. This will enable your pigs have a more natural life.
2.Get a water source.
Pigs likes water so you must make sure you have a steady water supply to the house.
3.Get a male and female pigs (piglets).
You can get more than one or two females if you wish. Though it all depends on how you want to start the farm. There are different species of pigs. Some pigs are long and slim while some are short and fart. There are other species that are long and very fat. The best specie is the one that is tall, long and also big. Before getting the piglets, make sure you see the mother and may be also see the male that crossed their mother. If they are tall, big and long then you can go for that specie. The reason is that the tall, long, and big sells more than other species and also easy to maintain.
4. Pierce the nose of your piglets and fix a ring
This system is not known by many farmers. Ringing the nose of your piglets prevent them from being destructive. One of the destructive weapon that pig has is the nose. They use it for digging. The nose is so strong that it can dig six feet down if given the opportunity. With the ring on their nose, they feel pains and stop digging Each time they want to destroy.
5. Deworm all your pigs on regular basis
Worms can easily shrink and kill pigs, it is one of the diseases that attacks pig farm. Deworming your pigs regularly will enable them grow plumpy.
6. Local foods for pigs
Some Pigs are not selective when it comes to food. They eats almost every foods that human being consumes. The choice of foods for your pigs depends on how they are brought up. Some bring up their pigs to eat only cooked foods, some bring up theirs to eat salted raw foods while some trained their pigs to eat all forms of foods. The choice depends on the farmer and the environment.
In an environment where the pigs are to be left outside, training them to feed on only cooked and salted foods will prevent them from eating planted crops.
Note: building your pig house under a three is very good as they don’t like high temperature. The situation where you don’t have trees to build the house under, you can create the shadow through any other materials.
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