A Handy Guide to Choosing the Right Pig Breed
Want to learn more about your pork? Learn how to choose the best pig breeds for your homestead based on what you love to eat.
Pigs
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The Grimy Truth about Homestead Pigs on Pasture
Learn the dirty truth about raising homestead pigs on pasture, how much land you really need, and how to give your pigs a good life.
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How to Estimate the Weight of a Live Hog?
How much does a pig weight? You can figure how much a pig weighs with a tape measure, calculator, and formula to estimate a live hog weight.
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2017 Homestead Hog Butchering Workshop
$350.00 Our workshop is officially FULL! But you can still get in on a workshop Hand Hewn and Liberty Farm are hosting next winter in January 2018. Join us December 8, 9, 10 2017 in Brinkhaven, Ohio for a 3-day, hands-on Homestead Hog Butchery Workshop! Description We are excited to welcome you into our home this winter…
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Little Pig, Littler Pig
See that little pig?She’s got issues. Every time we’d go outside (which was often, boy the weather last week was spectacular for March!) she’d pace the pen squealing and grunting. I just kept thinking that it was only a matter of time until I had to utilize skills at retrieving an emancipated pig. And I just really…
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Emancipated Pig
Isn’t it nice when you discover talents that you had no idea existed? Apparently, I have a knack for coercing 200 pound hogs to do my will! You could call me a “pig whisperer” (but don’t). I discovered this aptitude when our not so little escape artist broke free from her pen…. again. This happens…
