![]() As was mentioned, pigs can get pretty aggressive and start chewing on cattle, mostly hiefers, when they are laying down. Many sows gestation diet was "hot pockets" in the feedyard before they all got moved inside twenty plus years ago. it worked ok, have to watch to make sure the pigs are not biting the steers though We have also done this, we only has 3-4 pigs with 20 steers. I wonder how the hogs taste out of a deal like that? He said he never gave the hogs extra feed. Looked like he just had a couple head of hogs in a yard of maybe 50 cattle. Guy down the road from me had still done this a few years ago.Īside from keeping good fence and water source the hogs can reach, it seems to have merit. ![]() He said he worked all right but he said he had trouble with the hogs biting the calves on the a** when they were laying down wanting them to get up and produce some fresh "feed". Others can give better information on this than I can. Think it was something like a ratio of 10 head of feeder cattle to 1 pig. Have seen it done in the past around here. We have a large lot with shed space for cover so I wanted to see if anyone had done this in the past as I have very little experience with hogs. I am going to be getting 2 of the cut boars and will probably end up supplementing them a little. He acted like they could almost grow to butcher size just off the waste feed. ![]() I have a co-worker that is getting out of dirt hogs and has purebred berks and he was telling me that they used to put a couple feeder pigs in with their feeder calves to eat whats pushed out of the feeder and then what the calves didn't break down. We currently are feeding out 6 calves for freezer beef next spring and they are on a self feeder. Running feeder pigs with feedlot calves Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 ![]()
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