Diy bulk pig feeder9/11/2023 ![]() If you have the equipment you can grind your own feed, that’s what we do. If you didn’t just say “wow,” read that last sentence again, you missed it! Grind your own pig feed, if you can ![]() In our area, bulk feed costs just a touch over half price of branded feed. While that 100 pound bag phrase may make you a little nervous, not a fan of that much weight myself, I can work around it when I figure up the cost savings.Ĭost savings, is the big, actually, huge reason to use bulk feed. Bulk pig feed will save you moneyīulk feed is feed that is ground by you or a feed mill and comes on a feed truck or in 100 pound bags, called bulk bagged.įor the rest of this article I’ll just use the word bulk to mean the bulk bagged. Mainly, there are two options for feed, bulk from a feed mill or that you grind at the farm and 50 pound bags of branded (brand name) feeds, usually sold at the farm store.īoth feed options have good points and negatives, the main separator for me being price. The feed costs you have for your pig operation will depend greatly upon where and in what form you purchase your feed. Know your feed costs per pigįeed costs are the largest cost per year that goes with keeping any animal, pigs included. The hinges are new, but the rest of the materials are all recycled or left over from other projects. Here’s our farrowing pens that we built for the two litters this spring. Maybe, great idea so far! Now, we need to put some numbers with this idea to see if it is likely to work. That way, instead of joining the big group to purchase, I can sell my extras to that group at a time when they are really wanting what I would have to sell. It got me to thinking, why not raise my own piglets? That’s just supply and demand working as it should. With fair pig buyers and the small scale pig raisers all wanting feeder at the same time, the price is up. The catch is, the spring is when I want to buy feeder pigs as well. ![]() The auction is especially popular in the spring when people are looking to get a few fair pigs for 4-H or FFA projects. ![]() We live 45 minutes from Kidron Auction, in Kidron, Ohio, which has a substantial feeder pig auction every Thursday throughout the year. If you are lucky enough to live close to a feeder pig auction, then you have weekly access to a nice selection of feeders to take home and grow out. Raising your own feeder pigs will cost you between $49.72-89.49 in feed per feeder pig. What about making a profit from selling the extra feeder that you don’t need to keep? Let’s look into the numbers! Have you ever considered raising your own piglets for feeder pigs instead of buying them? What would be the cost per pig for you? ![]()
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