Message #77461

[Black Gold]

When we raised European boars I had a silverback boar that I sold at 28 months old....we weighed him on digital scale and he went 462 pounds.....Of course this was with selective breeding and awesome genetics, but he was double the size of his littermates.....Just a freak when it came to growth.

In the beginning we experimented with protein percentages from 10% to 24%....We found thru trial and error that vitamin content played a bigger role than protein did for putting on weight and for tusk growth.  The feed that we began using was 12-14% protein and was high in vitamins/minerals....

Sometimes a FREAK is born that defies common sense and GROWS, GROWS, and GROWS!