Pigs

Here’s what I think I know about raising pigs…

– Perennial peanut & barley for the pig feed
– Find a retired plantation guy (Uncle Bruce) that wants to work the farm with you.
– Use triple boundary fences requires to keep our wild pigs
– Work with Waimea butcher shop to package
– Work with the mobile butcher shop for processing or Kulana slaughter house in Hilo
– Learn to do your own slaughtering
– 80 pigs for 20 acres
– 5-6 pigs per paddock

My Elevation: 1000 feet

My Water: 100 inches per year

My Soil: pH=neutral, N=low, P=neutral, K=neutral

My luck with it (as of July 2019): I’ve had dome luck keeping out the wild pigs (so far) with 2-wire electric fence with one of them low. No interest in raising them at the moment.