Message #349296

[Reuben]

pigrig, where I was raised it was pretty poor folk...the hogs ate mostly corn from what was put back for the year... Usually some corn for cattle, chickens, and hogs...Chickens and cattle did well on it because they were running loose. The hogs were in pens so they didn't get a balanced diet...The hogs ate a little slop, mostly potato peeling and and other vegetable let overs...the dogs got the rest...but at our house my grandfather knew what wild weeds and grasses the hogs liked so he would go out with his machete and cut an armful once a day for the hogs...about 2 or 3 months before butchering time we increased the food and pre soaked the corn for a few days to really fatten the hogs up...