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Hog Heaven Homestead Registered IPPs in the Ozarks

This Registered Breeder Gilt (Pepper) is looking for a new home 🥰 message me for info
03/28/2025

This Registered Breeder Gilt (Pepper) is looking for a new home 🥰 message me for info

Tis the season! If you are looking for Pasture Piglets to join your farm this year, send me a message 😊
03/19/2025

Tis the season! If you are looking for Pasture Piglets to join your farm this year, send me a message 😊

Happy New Year! Message me if your interested in putting some fiiiine pork in your freezer to enjoy throughout 2025 🌰🌿🐖🥳...
01/02/2025

Happy New Year!
Message me if your interested in putting some fiiiine pork in your freezer to enjoy throughout 2025 🌰🌿🐖🥳

*We only have 2 left

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100% HOMEGROWN MEALSNo hands but our own have played with the ingredients on this plate... I find that the nutritional v...
08/20/2024

100% HOMEGROWN MEALS

No hands but our own have played with the ingredients on this plate... I find that the nutritional value is much higher when you include the ingredient of gratitude 🥰

Curious, who else likes to take these matters into their own hands??

PROS AND CONS OF BREEDING VS. GROWING OUT YOUR OWN FEEDERSWe first started with 2 feeder pigs. Born in February, brought...
08/14/2024

PROS AND CONS OF BREEDING VS. GROWING OUT YOUR OWN FEEDERS

We first started with 2 feeder pigs. Born in February, brought them to our property in April, grazed all spring, summer, fall. They finished on acorns then went to freezer camp. It was GREAT. Simple, just 2 pigs pal-ing around, growing bacon.

Then, that sneaky breeder mindset came creeping in and said "hold my beer" 😅..we thought "wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to worry about where we would source our next set of feeder piglets?"

Well folks, it aint that simple...

Litters of piglets sure are a blast, but that doesn't even begin to factor in the cost/job of extra fencing, extra shelters, extra water set ups, extra feed stations, extra FEED, extra rotating, extra attention to *try* to keep your Boar and Sows seperated, extra overall everything, energy!

To take it another step further if you are a decent human, then you will spend extra time to educate yourself on what is quality worth breeding, and what should go to the freezer.

Our first registered IPP breeders were so loveable and farrowed great, but boy did they look more like feeders...hard decisions have to be made even when you have lots of time and money invested into a strategic plan. As a breeder, you make plans, work hard to make them happen, then hold on for dear life to keep your sanity when it doesnt go according to plan.

In other words, I envy those of you raising your 2 cute feeder pigs but I can't stop 😂

WALLOWSEvery pig NEEDS a wallow. Whether you have 2 pigs or 200... they need access to water they can lay in. It helps t...
08/05/2024

WALLOWS
Every pig NEEDS a wallow. Whether you have 2 pigs or 200... they need access to water they can lay in. It helps to regulate their temperature in the heat and it also provides mud which helps fend off the biting bugs. You can give them access to a communal wallow or you can have several small wallows in each rotational paddock.

But beware! if you move your pigs to a new paddock and it does not have a wallow, they WILL make one themselves wherever their water vessel is. Be wiser than the pigs and choose a spot for their wallow before they choose one for you 😅

INTO THE WOODSPasture pigs or not, pigs love to rummage in the woods. And, we love to let them turn our leaves into soil...
08/02/2024

INTO THE WOODS

Pasture pigs or not, pigs love to rummage in the woods. And, we love to let them turn our leaves into soil!

We have found that this works best at the tail end of winter, just before spring for optimal seeding success 🙌🌿

PIG SHELTERS When the pigs are on a rotational grazing schedule, you will want the lightest shelter possible...simple an...
08/02/2024

PIG SHELTERS

When the pigs are on a rotational grazing schedule, you will want the lightest shelter possible...simple and cheap to build, and more importantly easy to move!

This little A frame with 2x3" wire and a canvas top is our go-to !!

NEW PASTURESDid you know??When you are building a new pasture and are nervous to put your pasture pigs on it too soon, y...
08/02/2024

NEW PASTURES

Did you know??
When you are building a new pasture and are nervous to put your pasture pigs on it too soon, you have the option of building their paddock NEXT to your new pasture, setting up hotwire single strand around the fresh pasture and allowing them to graze a few hours a day on it INSTEAD OF letting them live on it at this sensitive stage..

It works WONDERS on the new pasture!

Light grazing, light fertilizing and happy pigs makes for a happy farm!!

08/01/2024

Nothin' better than watching piglets on a lush pasture (that their ma n pa helped to create!)

WATER BARREL Our first year(+) with pasture pigs, we filled 5 gallon buckets of water 2-3 times a day. What an unnecessa...
08/01/2024

WATER BARREL
Our first year(+) with pasture pigs, we filled 5 gallon buckets of water 2-3 times a day. What an unnecessary mess!

Folks, this 55 gal water barrel is a GAME-CHANGER for pig farmers! We love our water ni**le barrels and so do the pigs 😊

Our local farm store sold us the barrel for $15 and the ni**le for another $15. One drill bit later and this vessel was in the works. Saves us SO MUCH time on the farm

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