Feeder Hogs Research Paper

Hogs Some of the best reasons to own a hog is that you can make money from them and they are fun. “They are a major source of income for many of the world’s farmers.”(Jacobs 284). If you can have an animal that is fun to own as well as profitable, then why not get one today. There are many ways to make money from a hog. First you can get more and raise them to be sold, second you can sell them for butchering, and third you can show them at fairs to make money. The way hags are sold they are put into categories feeder hogs and fat hogs. Feeder hogs are sold to be fed out to a market weight. Fat hogs are sold to be butchered. If they are not butchered they might be sold as breeding stock. If they are sold as breeding stock they will be put back into production reproducing pigs. Feeder hogs have a special market just for them. They are usually sold in large groups at auctions. There can be as many as 100 hogs sold at a time. Some people even contract their hogs to be fed. Others prefer to feed the the hogs themselves. If the feeding is contracted it makes more jobs for other people. If there are more jobs made that is good for the economy. That is how hogs make
Keeping them inside can make it easier to feed them and care for them. The pasture or yard can be constructed of any thing that is strong enough to hold up to a hog’s strength. They are very strong animals, so cheap material will not old up to them. One prefered method of many farmers is electric fence or permanent paneling, that they cannot root under. If you don’t have the funds for that kind of building material you can use regular old woven wire fence, you just have to stake the bottom to the ground, because they will push under the fence to get out, because to a hog the grass is always greener on the other side, whether it really is or