Best Way to Load a Hog?

Good Luck! And yes a camera is a must!

We had a 120 sow farrow to finish operation, and shipped 2,500 market hogs a year, from a very modern barn with concrete loading ramp with metal side gates.

Two or three men would spend up-to-an-awful-hour with plywood "pig-loading-boards-with-cut-out-holes-for-handles", with lots of colorful language - depending on the person, and a river of sweat. The problem is, when they get into a chute size space, they all "crunch-up" and don't move, with out physical pushing and shoving. What a task!

One day Nancy said, "take Patches (boarder-collie-cross) with you ". I all-knowingly said, "no way, she's a cattle dog" (used her on the dairy farm we had before we developed this hog farm).

Of course men must do whatever women say [also, it is usually better to do what they say sooner rather than latter, with a cheerful at least appearance, and relatively accurately - IMV(very)HO] . I did take Patches. And guess what? Next time, and ever after, no more boards, no more language, no sweat, no up-to-an-awful-hour, and only one person and one real smart dog and 5 minutes, thirty 220 lbs hogs right into the truck and off to market!

Really Good Luck, you need it.

Have fun anyway.

Listen, I have another idea, why not just become a vegetarian, like we have? If I used smile faces and laughing faces I would put a bunch right here.

Alex

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..........Just remember, that Hog , was somebody's mean exhusband from a previous life..........fordy :haha: :no: :yeeha: