Re: closely confined hogs and taste

Posted by robert major on January 16, 2016 at 23:43:15 from (216.81.19.38):

In Reply to: closely confined hogs and taste posted by wilson ind on January 16, 2016 at 19:05:46:

Hi
The barn environment does affect the meat color and flavor. We run 6 bio techs so apart from a roof over their head the hog is raised in a natural climate/day light controlled by the weather and the cycle of day and night , not a switch on the wall!. They have straw bedding not concrete and pens those guys are happy playing in the straw to.

They don't get any antibiotics here after the first 4 days i put that in the food when they come in to help deal with anything caused by the move to a new enviroment , we don't treat them after that. unless there is a whole barn full of a big health problem from our supplier. we loose very few due to tight herd bio security as our suppliers are an export breeding herd. we found out of all the odd sick ones we used to inject 95% died anyway so we quit about 8 years ago, nature takes it's coarse here now.

We have local guys that will come here and take a smaller hog that can't ship to a processor or if one happens to get a limp and can't ship. They say the meet tastes way different and has color to, compared to store bought.
My supplier has taken hogs from here in the same truck as some from the conventional climate controlled barn they run. You can see the difference in the live animal for color and how the animals react and behave to situations. If I quit here I could never work in a conventional barn, they are horrible places to raise a hog and work in.

Raising from say a 50lb plus weanling like we do and feed it good nutritional balanced corn/soya and such hog rations is the way to go. you should get a good tempered hog and the best weight gain for time. If the protein is not right it makes our hogs waist more food and it gives them a real bad attitude. I can tell and will ask the feed truck driver if they changed food or different ingredients he will say yes how did I know. simple the fact 180 of these 90 -130 kg hogs are trying to kill me in the barns all of a sudden!.
As for what to go with You can get some real good modern blends that do good like we raise them. But what they all are i don't know. I think ours are called P.I.C genetics from what my guys told me last week. we might of had some called isoweans at one point that did good to.
Regards Robert

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