Well finally today the last of the Sept hogs are in the freezers. The delicious Berkshire hogs will make for many happy meals. Berkshire hogs are for those in the know, the BEST of the BEST. It is a pleasure to work with these quiet and friendly animals. Teana's 8 little ones are growing and doing well as they mingle with the older feeder hogs. Grandma and Misty should be about two months pregnant, and if I imagine hard enough, I think they are beginning to show a little. We raise these hogs an all vegetable diet, featuring locally grown barley and not solocally soy bean meal, and alfalfa hay. And probably the distinctive feature with our hogs, other than being Berkshire is that we top them out around 350 lbs, I love the large pork chops, and the larger quantity of sausage. Tender, juicy, tasty, it's about dinner time isn't it?
We added a nice gilt (Ziggy) from southern Utah, and a beautiful gilt (Reggi) from Iowa this summer, oh and Misty came in from Boise. So we're set with some new bloodlines for the next couple of years.
