I am honestly at a loss I feel like the industry changed gears very quickly. This leaves me with this question. We have two gilt to choose from to take to our county fair. One is tall, more narrow and longer necked and the other is very stout, not as tall and shorter necked - both are sound. What on...

Unfortunitly, in swine there is not. If you don't have a boar you will need to use a boar spray to check her. Look for signs of pending heat cycle swelling or redness in the vulva area. Once you notice these signs spray a bit of the boar spray morning and night -- if she is in she will lock-up and h...

On your pens, farrowing crates and so on do you have a preference on brand or type? I had never heard of the freeze guard post water system - Love it - defiantly going to look at adding those.

Thank you, I wasn't sure if "making his father look bad" as in a positive or negative sense. Glad to hear the that it's positive.

Bonefreak22 ~ What do you mean when you say Sky Cam makes his daddy look bad?

Swinedad & Windfall Farm...Thank you-- your comments are much appropriated. You right in that we don't want to look back and say we wish we would have done this differently. We will take all the advise we can get.

We are looking into building a hog barn on a small scale (8 sows) - one that will be user friendly. We have looked online at idea's but aren't coming up with much. Any suggestion on heating/cooling, watering systems, best options for easy cleaning would be greatly appreciated. What has worked or not...