I caught me a little red piglet...she was a cute little thing and she even had red hooves and tan pigment on her nose...Well I wanted to calm this little pig down on the way home so I stuck my finger in her mouth to let her suckle...well that little pig...she tried her best to yank off my finger...she might of weighed 2 pounds but she was shaking from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail and she wasn't letting go...
I felt pretty foolish and I sure wasn't about to make a sound cause I didn't want my brother and friend to see the brilliant side of me...
Well I put her on corn and she just wasn't growing...switched her to a mostly corn type dog food and she started growing like a weed...long story short...I couldn't put those pirrahna mtn cur pups on her because she became a pet...so I gave her away to a good friend...
pig nutrition story below...
but first...I lived out in th boonies and our closest neighbor was a little over a 1/2 mile away...all other neighbors were at least 2 miles away in any direction so it was deer huntin and huntin with dogs paradise...I just had the run of the place...
Well the neighbors that lived 1/2 a mile away bought 3 shoats and 2 were about 50 pounds and the runt must of weighed about 25 or 30 pounds...they were crossbred but mostly duroc...the older pigs were a deep dark auburn red and shiny colored and the runt was a dull yellowish red...Well the pig pen had a small hole on one corner and the little runt could squeeze himself out through that hole and he found paradise...he had corn fields, maize fields and a big rice field across the road from his house to choose his menu from...I dropped by a couple months or so later and I saw 2 dull yellowish red colored 70 pound pigs and a deep and dark auburn red shiny coated pig that weighed about 100 pounds or so justa come runnin to the pen at feeding time and just jumped in the pen over the wooden fence...I asked my friend what had happened to the runt...and he said you are looking at him...He said it didn't take that runt long to get to big for the hole in the fence...but he learned to jump over...knowing what was out there must have been all the motivation he needed to continue getting out...kind of like a dog that learns how to get out of the yard...hard to contain them after the first time out...
Well this pig got up to about 350 pounds in no time flat and his brothers still only weighed between 125 and 150 pounds...
He got in our corn field and I sic'ed my dogs on him and they were really pulling on that hide and after my pinto dog ripped some hide off of that hog I called the dogs off...That runt was the first of the three to get butchered...
