HELLO FROM MICHIGAN- looking for advice/new info
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:01 pm
Hi. My wife and I started a small sustainable organic farm a couple of years ago when we got married and just purchased our first red wattle gilt. We are from Nunica, MI. We've bought feeder pigs several times and raised them up to slaughter and I have been raising pigs off/on my whole life. I have never really been into breeding pigs before and am hoping to gain a little advice.
*Does anyone know if there is a local place that semen can be bought to AI our gilt or if I will need to purchase a boar?
*How old does a gilt need to be to be bred?
*Does anyone know if there is a local place that semen can be bought to AI our gilt or if I will need to purchase a boar?
*How old does a gilt need to be to be bred?