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Cole Younger

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Had this Boar from a feeder, 11 yr old daughter always feeds him doing chores it's her pig So the neighbor wants to borrow him for breeding and we can't get trailer close to pen with snow and mud I let him out of pen and he follows daughter right into trailer before I even get gate tied back up. After loading pigs myself and with dad and grandpa for 48 yrs this was the easiest 400 lb boar ever loaded, I remember my dad pushing hogs up the chute and using a board on them which only made it worse, Now my daughter is The Pig Whisperer, Now the real problem, taking Little Porky to the Market someday, I told the kids don't name the pigs and they did anyway
 

The easiest way to load a hog is to let the hog think it's the hog's idea. I know, it's much easier said than done, especially when the hogs in the truck are coming back down the chute and another one is standing crossways at the bottom. We have one local guy who lives in town but makes his living helping farmers load hogs. He's so good at getting hogs to go the right way they joke that he "talks pig". He rarely gets mad but if he does it has to be a REALLY bad loading situation to get him that way.
 
Did some baling for a neighbor that had pigs. They told us one day that they had some boars for sale. We were thinking about buying one of the boars for breeding a litter or two of feeders.

A few days after we asked about the price of one, they called us to come and get 4 of them cause the pigs got out them. We opened the pen most just walked right into the trailer, one was a little stubborn. Asked price for the lot they said we'll figure that later.

Then when loading them to send to the livestock auction opened pen walked right out. My brother was holding the gate to hold the one we wanted yet, I went to get something to fix the gate, walked by trailer and shut the door. When I got back to the gate my brother was surprised that they were in already.

We never had pigs that just walked right in. usually its build a tight wall path and push with plywood.

The final price was the check from the auction for 3 for all 4. We paid a little for the 4th pig, then they paid us a little more than agreed price for doing the baling.
 
Dad had sows in three different places and hauled his Landrace bore named Ike in a home made trailer that Ike had to stand corner ways and his back was as high as the solid sides. Dad would back the trailer up to the pen, remove the trailer end gate, put a wooden gate over the trailer sides, open the gate to his pen and old Ike would jump in and stand waiting to take a ride. Not sure Ike remembered what would happen at the end of his ride or he just liked to ride in the trailer. One neighbor also used Ike. Huge animal but as friendly as a dog. Dad had a contract with a packing company and loading out a semi load of hogs was not that easy. At least for the first few. After a few were in the semi it did go some what easier. Some would walk up the shoot without a boost by the tail.
 
Did you stop in town and buy a lottery ticket? :lol:
If you name your pigs call them pork chop, bacon, or ham gravy. These are appropriate names for pigs.
 
get the hog thinkin its his idea ..I open the slide gate to the truck just a bout a foot , and holler oh know he is getting out .. most time the hog raises gate and bulldozes rite in,,,last winter the 3pigs got loose, weighed about175 lbs,, opened the gate just a little and threw in the feed ,, 2 ran rite in,, the other was out in the woods in the ice and snow , it heard the other pigs squealin while eatin , it came back sqealin , and jumped over the gate , and got rite in ,
 
Someone gave us that advice about the bucket once. One or two went fine; the next one decided to go forward. The ceiling in the barn hurts when a pig ,with or without a bucket on its face, still goes between your legs and throws you up and over.
 
That's the way I used to do it. Never had a problem. I even had a rod on my chute pinned to the gate on the trailer to open and shut the gate from the middle of the chute.
 
Hogs always think in reverse so if you want them to go up the chute you have to try pushing them back and if you want them to go out the gate, you have to try and keep them in.
 


When I had hogs, the neighbor came down one night and wanted me to help loading three hogs for the freezer. I went down there with a metal bushel basket, and loaded two right up by holding the basket over their snoot, backed then in the trailer. He said let me try that, he never saw that before. I handed the basket to him, and he tried it, but left one eye looking out. That hog took off in high gear forward, he flipped over the hogs back landing in the pig slit. His hat was buried, so he dug it out cussing me out for laughing so hard that I had big tears running down my cheeks
 
We use a bucket of dog feed to get the hogs to go where we want them. This works very well except when you try to get them to go where the electric fence was at. Now that is had to do, hogs remember where the fence was
Boss
 

Yes, If you fence them in with an electric fence you will never get them back out of that pen. I had an electric wire across a gate I drove through with the grinder mixer. Had a spring on the end of the wire so I could drive right over the wire. When it came time to move the hogs out of that lot through that gateway they would not go for love or money with the wire removed. I sprinkled shelled corn through the gateway and they wouldn't go. I finally chained a feed bunk to the loader, tipped the feed bunk vertical and pushed them through with the feed bunk. What a day!
 

my neighbor could steer them onto the trailer pretty quickly with the bucket over the head. I thought that it took a lot of practice.
 
About a month before its time to go to slaughter we start feeding a few sugar cookies and lead them around. The crinkle of the package sets them off. Throw a few on the ramp, the rest up in the trailer, and crinkle the package. We're typically loaded in minutes.
 
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