pigs on concrete floor??

tractormiallis · Jul 3, 2011

Hi, I have an old bank barn that has a concrete floor. I am interested, at least considering raising a couple, maybe 5 hogs in it, not for show, just meat. Is the concrete floor a problem for their hoof and legs after a while? Any suggestions are appreciated. Again, I am just inquiring..

buickanddeere · Jul 3, 2011

Any place for a robust fence and let them root in a hay field? Meat tastes better that way.

RalphWD45 · Jul 3, 2011

During the 1960
s I worked for a Pike Co, Ill farmer, who finished all his market hogs on slanted concrete floors, that we hosed off daily. They bedded on the top section, and used a round galvinized feeder, in the middle of the pen. I don"t remember a lame hog, during those years.

JMS/.MN · Jul 4, 2011

Today"s hogs, after years of confinement, are bred to withstand a hard surface. Anyone who raised hogs in mud years ago appreciates today"s genetics.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 4, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:45:21 07/03/11) Hi, I have an old bank barn that has a concrete floor. I am interested, at least considering raising a couple, maybe 5 hogs in it, not for show, just meat. Is the concrete floor a problem for their hoof and legs after a while? Any suggestions are appreciated. Again, I am just inquiring..

Plenty of pork in the area of germany that I live in and in the 21 years I've been here and travelling around, I#ve never seen a pig outside.....

Just like ralphwd45 says is how they do it here. Very seldom do you smell a pig either except when they pump out the poop tank and spray it on the field.

Dave

Zachary Hoyt · Jul 4, 2011

Lots of people do it that way. We have ours in a movable pen that I drag onto fresh ground every week or so and they tear it up and eat the grass and worms and such. I guess it depends what time of year you want to raise them and what is handy to use for you.
Zach

BANDITFARMER · Jul 4, 2011

Yes you can put hogs on concrete in a bank barn. I have learned that its easyer to keep a hog warm than it is to keep one cool. I raised them in the winter and had no problems. I would sugest a layer of corn cobs then a good layer of straw, Even heaver were you want they to bed. Set your pen up for your convenance. Keep some high sulfer coal on hand for them to cew on. Give them mash two or three times a week (feed water and beer and let it ferment for a few days). Hogs love it, And some real good clover or alfalfa hay. You will have happy hogs and good tasty meat. Bandit

PJH · Jul 4, 2011

I fattened hogs one concrete for years. They'll do fine. You can help yourself on cleanup - remember that they'll P and crap around the waterer, but it'll be relatively clean around the feeder. Position the feeder and waterer with that in mind. In other words - don't put the waterer at the back of the pen where you'll have to rassle the cleanup to the front. The first day, when you put the new pigs in your pen, pour a five gallon bucket of water out around the waterer to get them started in the right place.

I miss hearing the feeder lids banging in the night, and sometimes briefly entertain the thought of getting a few feeder pigs to fatten up, but then I jolt myself back to the realities, such as the price of corn. . .

You've got to drive for miles to see a hog around here. Usta be hogs on EVERY farm.

Have fun,
Paul

JerryS · Jul 5, 2011

I wouldn't think their life expectancy would be such that you would need to be concerned about them developing flat feet and vericose veins?

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