Buy The Pigs Research Paper

It starts in March and ends in August, the grind of taking care of and showing pigs. You start by buying the pigs around the end of March the start of April. I go to different sales with my uncle who also houses our pigs. We go from sale to sale picking out which ones we think are going to be good. We try not to go after the really expensive pigs so we don’t spend a lot of money. Once you finish looking at them the auction starts. One of the places we buy our pigs is in Illinois so we buy them offline and then go exchange the pigs around the Illinois Indiana State line. When we get them home we put them in a pen normally the pen is small to start so they stay in warmer spots while they are small.
At first you have to let them get used to you by letting them sniff your hand so they aren’t scared of you. Normally we end up with about twelve pigs eight for county fair and four for the State fair. We each only show four at the county fair and two each at the State fair. As we get more we split them
in the morning! The hardest part is loading the pigs into the trailer because they have to step up 6 inches to get into the trailer. A lot of the time they don’t want to go in so you have to push them to get them to step up into the trailer. Once we get to the fairgrounds we have to unload them and put them in our pens. Once we are done with that we had to wait until 10:00 a.m. to weigh them in. 10:00 a.m. finally comes and then we had to wait another two hours to weigh in. Once you are done weighing in we finally feed them for the first time that day. We didn’t want to feed them before weigh in because we didn’t want their weight to change. We spent the rest of the day and all of Tuesday doing the normal stuff we did when they were back home. On Wednesday which is the day before the show it is hecktik in the barn because everyone is trying to wash their pigs and make their final adjustments before show