Hilljack @ shipleys

Solidrockhogman1 · Post by **Solidrockhogman1** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:01 pm

Just curious what people think of this boar. Any information about him would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

lostfarmer · Post by **lostfarmer** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:25 pm

I have one that is a little taller gilt. She is a little hard in her design and plenty of shape. She has been hard to get softened up. She has correct structure. Bought her as a market and I don't have any information on the bottom of the pedigree.

insulator · Post by **insulator** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:13 am

I had an April litter. Only had 6 pigs weaned 6 and all 6 pigs have been sold for show. I kept the only guilt out of the litter and she has been a stand out since day 1. The 5 barrows have all went through stages of being my favorite some have been alittle slower to impress but all look good at this point in the game. Good bone, depth and shape. Iused him on a pure york.

ShowpigPA · Post by **ShowpigPA** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:27 am

We have had roughly 6 litters of hilljack pigs and he has done a tremendous job for us. If you use him on sows that look terminal or are bred for muscle, he will work every time if you want to add bone, guts, body, in a structrually sound package. Will definatly be using him again this fall. I believe he is the cheapest per dose, $100, hillbilly bone son that has bred on so far. He is a "piece" boar but bred to right sows he hits everytime!!

showpig55 · Post by **showpig55** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:02 pm

what type of females did you breed him too?

have the barrows that you have seen out of him look good when they fully mature and are at market weight?

Ive just heard that that hillbilly bone line produces good females but nothing great on the barrow side

ShowpigPA · Post by **ShowpigPA** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:53 pm

A barrow out of Hilljack was Res. Champion Overall at a county show I saw last Thursday in Bedford, Pa. 190 head entered.

CJJJLivestock · Post by **CJJJLivestock** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:10 pm

I thought the barrow at bedford was really massive, huge topped, but narrowed at the ground on both end front and back. Thought the third overall heavyweight barrow was better

bulldog · Post by **bulldog** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:52 pm

hilljack has sired a ton of champions for us at bedford he had grand carcass, grand mid weight, res heavy weight, and res over all.

huntingdon co fair he had res heavy and res over all

that was his first to shows around here

Mary-Okie · Post by **Mary-Okie** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:26 pm

I judged Hunnington County fair. That gilt was massive and monster boned. She was 280+ and handled it OK. Her stamina wasn't the best. If I could have changed her, she could have gotten out with more length of stride on both ends. She started to tighten up as the show rolled on. That was where I beat her with the Blue Butt gilt.

If she is any indication of the types of hogs out of Hilljack, then he needs to be used!

amshowpigs · Post by **amshowpigs** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:51 am

we had one litter of hilljacks on a bring it on/blackattack and got along very well with them two seconds in class and two thirds and two class winners, very consitant litter, they got a late start but came on hard in the end.