What genes do you need for the blue roan? Sky's the limit color?

has anyone used shipley's commercial/terminal semen line of Duroc or berk for meat quality? i'm breeding for summer and have a lot of sows synced and sell meat pigs in the summer. is the seamen the handled that same as the show semen? i mean not watered down and good litter sizes etc?

thanks for your reply

i'm looking at buying a load of $200 a hd showpigs from cains. I was wondering if anyone has saw what their $200 a head hogs look like?

yes, i already have a heat area penned off.

We currently pen farrow. In the past i feel that we have a higher death loss then i would like to get used to. Our main death loss comes from crushing. I would like to decrease the loss. In an effort to do this i was thinking of making it so the piglets would be separate from the sow. For the first ...

Paylean says do not feed to breeding swine. has anyone fed to boars with any negative symptoms? Also i would assume all other supplements would be ok to feed to breeding prospect boars?

My daughter made the draw for Denver. We will be coming from Idaho. My question is this................ How do you haul hogs in January without freezing them? We have a totally enclosed trailer, is that sufficient enough? I will bed with straw. do i need to hang up a propane heater?

would like some feedback. positive or negative
lifes a beach
Sour diesel
regulator
clown punch

who makes the mobile farrowing houses. i would like a 10-12 crate house. crates,floors,HVAC, everything. where can i find one

no state-line, but we are set for gooding show.

a scale from A-A Scales. i use the supplement cup and then verify with my scale

Doc, oh how I wish you were next door. It's a new scale this year. I can put a bag of 709 and it weighs 49-51 # every time. I use the same scale to weigh the rations and also the pigs. Can you send me an email i would like to send you my spread sheet with weights and date and such. just PM the email

we went from .5 ADG to 3.5 ADG. i need some serious help here. Feeding 2# powerfill 2# 709 1/2 # depth charge. Pigs weigh 140 and 160 74 days to show. want to be 275 on the heavy one and maybe 165 on the lighter one

k doc, For the past week we have changed our diet on 2 show pigs. I needed to gain about 1.5 per day. we decided to feed 2lb 709 2 lb powerfill and 8oz depth charge. The barrow went .51 ADG and the gilt went .71 ADG. Last year we used powerfil on a barrow. fed 3 lbs per day for 30 days. the barrow g...