Here are just three reasons why heritage hogs are better than commercial. These three reasons are pretty persuasive!
1. Heritage hogs are cheaper to feed (but need more space). You can set a heritage hog loose on acres of pasture and allow it to forage for the bulk of its diet, saving you tons in feed costs. But this means it must have permanent access to pasture. This is the first, and largest, discrepancy between the two types of hogs. How much space are you willing to dedicate as “hog land?” Heritage hogs were developed to fend for themselves on open land.
For a small farm without an acre to spare for hog pasture, heritage breeds may not be the right choice. Commercial hogs that were developed to thrive in very small spaces get by perfectly well on as little as 20 square feet of space per hog. These breeds include Duroc, Hampshire, Yorkshire and Landraces. They will do just fine on dirt; however, these types of hogs need access to commercial hog feed 24/7 to meet their growing potential.
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Gary Jay Hess
Boss Hog
How much space do they need ? Is An acre enough
Ohh my goodness no dont.
A hog like this will and has killed lot of people.
There’s a lot of information on this .
They grow huge tusks and they rutt bad .
Have you ever seen old yellow. They are just like them .really. there’s a reason for so called commercial pigs .
These are hogs .
Commercial pigs are pigs .
All they said was please like this page .I already do .ugh