[donkeylover1]

My neighbor has regular sized baby pigs for sale and I already have a barn with open stalls and I'm guessing they eat the natures match pig feed by purina and hay pellets how much of the natures match would a growing pig need a day I'm not looking to put weight on him very fast he or she would not be to slaughter just as a pet and possibly breed later on

 

[highlands]

Do you mean weaner pigs? What age (weeks)?

What breed are these? I would not suggest using a farm pig as a pet because they get very large and will eat a huge amount of food down the road... Expensive pets. Excellent bacon and pork.

The bag of feed likely has a suggested feeding rate. It generally starts at somewhere around a pound and goes up from there as the pig grows to about ten pounds at around six months of age. Most of the feed charts stop at that point because most pigs are slaughtered then. Behind that it gets progressively more expensive per day and the feed conversion rate gets poor. You may find these two articles helpful:
http://www.thepigsite.com/stockstds/18/daily-feed-intake
https://extension.usu.edu/cache/files/uploads/Project_Pig_Planner.pdf

Grazing, garden gleanings and scraps are all good additions to the pig's diet that will help to keep the feed bill down.

See the stickie posts about feed, pasturing, etc.

-Walter