Breeding pigs in a private backyard

The peasant farm provides the family with food products of plant and animal origin. Pig farming is beneficial for many reasons. Obtaining meat after short-term feeding, disposal of food residues, summer keeping with grazing makes pork a cheap and affordable product. Read also aboutVietnamese pigs!

Is it profitable to keep pigs and why

Pork production is beneficial for both the family and business development. In any economic situation, there will be a piece of meat on the table. With a small investment, you can start a pig breeding business on your own backyard. A unique animal will provide a stable income both when raising livestock for meat, and when keeping sows to sell offspring.

Objective data on the effectiveness of pig keeping:

• a rapid increase in marketable weight, for a year of keeping the live weight of a newborn piglet increases 140 times;
• carcass weight compared to live weight is 85%, while in cattle it is 50-60%;
• for farrowing, the uterus brings up to 14 piglets, depending on the breed, each of which will bring $ 100-200 in a month;
• pigs assimilate up to 30% of the feed composition; in other domestic animals this figure does not exceed 20%.

The correct choice of breed and small investment will allow beginners in home breeding to create a successful business. To meet the family's needs for meat and lard, it is enough to buy two piglets in early spring. Toddlers don't need a lot of storage space. In the summer, animals grow rapidly. With the onset of autumn, there are many plant residues in the courtyard, which are a good forage base. For intensive feeding of pigs for two months before slaughter, it will be necessary to increase the consumption of protein feed. Apart from the labor of caring for the pigs, a year's supply of pork is cheap. You don't need a warm pigsty. But there are requirements for fattening pigs that must be met.

Keeping pigs at home requires proper nutritional choices. So a baby at the age of a month needs:

• the predominance of dairy products and cereals based on milk or its substitutes;
• the use of special premixes for piglets containing special sets of vitamins and antibiotics, so that babies grow up healthy;
• maintain a feeding frequency appropriate for the age and stomach size of the piglet.

When fattening a piglet from 2 to 4 months, do not include raw in the diet potatoes, only mashed potatoes or a jerk. Root vegetables are best served boiled and chopped. It is healthier to feed carrots raw grated, the grass should be finely chopped and boiled with boiling water.

After slaughter, the pig carcass is treated with a blowtorch to remove the bristles. The pressure washer will help wash off the carbon deposits. A compact car wash is available from car owners. The use of this processing method increases the presentation of the product.

Pig breeding and fattening business

Any business requires planning. A business plan for breeding pigs should include an expense and revenue side. Pig breeding is profitable only if the requirements for the conditions of keeping and feeding the animals are met.

Therefore, the main point in the cost estimate is the construction of a pigsty based on an area of ​​4 sq. m per feed unit and 6 squares per sow. The room should include a den, a walking area and a sun canopy. A bathhouse should be provided for pigs. If feeding is done in a shared trough, there should be enough room for each animal to approach.

The stable must be strong so that the pig does not go into the wild as a result of digging. Provide in the pigsty:

• roof that excludes leakage;
• natural and combined lighting;
• capital walls, excluding freezing;
• floor with waste gutters and clean, dry underlay;
• ventilation of the room.

When placed, there should be a walking area, on which pigs spend most of their time in the summer. In the open air, muscle gain is faster, animals get sick less.

The expenditure part includes the acquisition of thoroughbred individuals. For commercial production of meat, the breeding of pigs of the desired breed must be carried out on the farm. This will reduce the cost of purchasing piglets on the side and allow you to get healthy offspring for the herd.

If piglets are purchased from other holdings, they must be quarantined before forming the herd. It is necessary to budget for the vaccination of the herd at each stage of development. Without a certificate of veterinary control of livestock, the legal sale of meat will be impossible.

The current cost item will be the purchase of special feeds for pigs, premixes and vitamin complexes. However, feed is much cheaper than meat. The cost of production is traditionally high. And if the growing technology is observed, the business risk is minimized, but this cost item needs to be planned.

With a large number of pigs, dry feeding is preferable. The increased feed costs will pay off with a greater weight gain and lower costs for fattening. It is important to provide the animals with water, 6-8 liters per head per day.

The income part takes into account that one sow can give up to 14 piglets, whose fattening will provide up to 3 tons of marketable products. Distribute profits by timing of product receipt. If the resulting balance does not give the expected profit, the business plan for breeding pigs needs to be optimized. That is, find cheaper stern or suckers. Successful backyard pig breeders receive up to 1000% of the profit in 2-3 years.

In order for raising pigs at home, as a business, to be successful, the following rules should be followed:

• observe hygienic conditions for keeping pigs;
• do not miss the time for the castration of pigs;
• to carry out preventive measures against diseases and avitaminosis of the livestock;
• observe the time and frequency of feeding animals, ensure constant access to water.

Feeding feed with mold and signs of acidification of liquid feed is not allowed. Feeders should be periodically treated with boiling water.

When buying offspring from thoroughbred pigs, you need to know about the structural features of animals. You can get pork with a predominance of lard, bacon or meat from a particular breed.

Is it profitable to keep pigs? There is no other way to provide a family with meat at cost. To organize a business with a small number of heads, the sale of meat will take place without going to trading floors. Neighbors will become buyers. Livestock products are always in steady demand.

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