You need to study up a little before you call B/S. I specifically stated that the hogs would gain more on full feed on drylot but the other part of the statement, that any kind of livestock do better on pasture has been proven correct since the dawn of recorded history. There is no since putting any livestock out on sloppy muudy lots but pasture is a different thing altogether. Livestock raised out in the open grow hair to stay warm and your statement that the pigs will be ''burning off 50% of what it eats trying to stay warm'' is not quite accurate. Every animal has a maintenance level of feed required to live and maintain body temperature and the feed fed above that level provides the growth, or eggs or milk or whatever. There have been literally hundreds of midwestern and northeastern university experiments dating back over 100 years where pigs, lambs, steers, goats, you name it, have been fed in various lots, sheltered, unsheltered, windbreaks only etc. to figure out the most economical ways to fatten the animals, it always comes down to ration fed, the addition of shelter rarely makes any difference unless it is extreme cold where the animals will not drink water. Where do you think 99.9% of the hogs were raised in this country up until the 1950's?
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