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<blockquote data-quote="Chieftain" data-source="post: 8601895" data-attributes="member: 109632"><p>Will vary a fair bit depending on genetics and the system but something in the region of 5 months from birth sounds realistic when comparing to indoor systems.</p><p></p><p>Not sure how you'd fit it in with arable, I guess what you're suggesting is you over winter a batch of pigs after a cereal with some cover crop mixed in. First problem of cause is that you only have enough time for one lot a year, so you've got a lot of money tied up in kit that's depreciating from a financial point of view. Regarding ground damage, cover or no cover, 100's of pigs with no rings in will make a field look like the Somme when they're at killing weight. Pigs outdoors have got to be on free draining land really i.e sand to give them anything decent to live on in a wet month and ideally on a medium term grass lay that will give some decent strength to the soil structure that will stand a bit of rough treatment.</p><p></p><p>If you're talking just housing for the last couple of months, things will be a lot simpler because you've generally lost the runts by that point and any deaths will just be heart attacks in the middle of the night. So you'd be right in that sense that it's just feed them, water them and bed them. But if you're having them straight from weaning then you'll have plenty of jabbing to do to keep some of them right, and at the end of the day on most B&B contracts I've known of you get penalised for deaths so it's of everyone's interest to do it. It's definitely a decent supplement income for an arable farmer as it gives them something to do and some income over winter, as long as they can be managed appropriately in summer also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chieftain, post: 8601895, member: 109632"] Will vary a fair bit depending on genetics and the system but something in the region of 5 months from birth sounds realistic when comparing to indoor systems. Not sure how you'd fit it in with arable, I guess what you're suggesting is you over winter a batch of pigs after a cereal with some cover crop mixed in. First problem of cause is that you only have enough time for one lot a year, so you've got a lot of money tied up in kit that's depreciating from a financial point of view. Regarding ground damage, cover or no cover, 100's of pigs with no rings in will make a field look like the Somme when they're at killing weight. Pigs outdoors have got to be on free draining land really i.e sand to give them anything decent to live on in a wet month and ideally on a medium term grass lay that will give some decent strength to the soil structure that will stand a bit of rough treatment. If you're talking just housing for the last couple of months, things will be a lot simpler because you've generally lost the runts by that point and any deaths will just be heart attacks in the middle of the night. So you'd be right in that sense that it's just feed them, water them and bed them. But if you're having them straight from weaning then you'll have plenty of jabbing to do to keep some of them right, and at the end of the day on most B&B contracts I've known of you get penalised for deaths so it's of everyone's interest to do it. It's definitely a decent supplement income for an arable farmer as it gives them something to do and some income over winter, as long as they can be managed appropriately in summer also. [/QUOTE]
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