Hygiene question for pigs

ET1 SS · #21 08/22/13, 06:16 PM

If you kept 1,000 humans penned in a 1/2 acre coral, refused to have a septic system to carry away and treat their effluent, and forced them to live in their excrement; then 'humans' would be the filthiest animals ever.

To say that pigs are filthy is silly.

Bluegrasslady · #22 08/22/13, 10:19 PM

I honestly feel bad for my pigs. My friend convinced me I only needed a small pen to raise a couple...now I have two pigs in a little pen with shoulder deep mud/crap every time it rains. It stinks. I can't even get in there to wash the water trough everyday because of the mud. Once these two go to butcher I'm going to do something different for sure

. I have the ability to give them more space with the addition of some fencing, so I will go ahead and make the enclosure bigger and probably just grow out one at a time. Also I will build some real heavy duty feeders and waterers.

ET1 SS · #23 08/22/13, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bluegrasslady

I honestly feel bad for my pigs. My friend convinced me I only needed a small pen to raise a couple...now I have two pigs in a little pen with shoulder deep mud/crap every time it rains. It stinks. I can't even get in there to wash the water trough everyday because of the mud. Once these two go to butcher I'm going to do something different for sure

. I have the ability to give them more space with the addition of some fencing, so I will go ahead and make the enclosure bigger and probably just grow out one at a time. Also I will build some real heavy duty feeders and waterers.

Have you shown your 'friend' how inhumane this is?

Granted there are feed-lots where people raise thousands of animals in small confined areas. But that is nasty.

Since your friend was arguing in favor of this, clearly your friend does not understand how filthy such a situation is.

You also need to put your pigs on a dewormer.

Livestock in filth is not the fault of the livestock.