Blog Entries: HogsWe have created this blog categorization system as a way to organize and preserve the daily blogs written about our farming life. We hope you find this categorization system helpful.The following blog entries are all related in some way to the topic of swine. They may cover any one or more of the following topics: ethics husbandry reproduction feeding housing regulatory oversight marketing profitability Or they may simply be essays about some aspect of keeping hogs. We hope you find something useful here, or at least some pleasant reading. If there is some way we can improve our archiving system, please Contact Us and we'll take your recommendations into consideration. Enjoy! Breeding Pigs with Artificial Insemination June 2, 2011 Preview of this blog entry: "This past winter, I wrote about using Artificial Insemination (AI) as a preferred method for breeding pigs. AI has several advantages over working with live boars - easier than transporting either the sow or boar, less disease risk, easier for the handler, and more bloodline choices. So we looked forward to AI’ing our two young gilts in March. Of course, life in general and farming in particular rarely ever go strictly according to plan. Such was the case this spring for us..." Click here to read the rest of this blog entry. Romancing The Sow January 18, 2011 Preview of this blog entry: "Pig romance is in the air on the farm today. One of our gilts is in heat, and it’s time to find Mr. Right. But that’s not as straightforward as it might seem. There are three basic ways a small scale farm can breed their pigs - bring a boar to the farm, take the gilts or sows to the boar, or use Artificial Insemination. As convenient and "natural" as the first two options may seem compared to the third, they don't pencil out very often..."
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