WEANER PIGS
Weaner Pigs
For Sale
Weaner Pigs
For Sale
weaner pig order form
Current Weaner Pig Price: $175/Pig
Weaner pigs are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, as-available. We can’t guarantee exact dates but as your weaner pigs get close to weight, we’ll coordinate with you on pick-up times. We live and work on the farm so someone is generally available. Here’s a few tidbits and below, you can read more on some things to consider before you purchase your pigs.
Some things to consider on
pick up day
If you’ve done this a bunch, this might not be all that helpful, but if your buying weaner pigs for the first time or it’s been awhile, here are a couple of things to help the process go smoothly.
Have their new living quarters ready to go
Cover
Pigs can thrive and grow throughout the year, so long as they are living in good conditions. Whether it’s Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter, having just a little roof over their head can go a long ways. It’s also nice if they have something that blocks the wind.
Bedding
Yes, pigs love the mud – but they also like to be comfortable. Great if you can figure out a way to keep your weaner pigs warm when it’s cold, and cool when its hot. This may mean ensuring dry straw in the winter and a wallow in the summer.
Water
Make sure your weaner pigs have fresh, clean water to drink. This is as vital for your weaner pigs as it is you and I. It also doesn’t matter what time of year it is – if it’s super cold out, have a plan to keep their tank thawed.
All of our weaner pigs drink out of watering nipples so consider that an option. If a water trough is what you have, they’ll be thrilled with that too, just be prepared to clean it out periodically during the summer cause they like to use it as a wallow.
Feed
Whether you’re feeding custom-mixed grain or bagged feed, you should have some on-hand for their arrival. Nutritional needs for weaner pigs is something we’ll cover elsewhere, but it’s important you have some sort of plan for their arrival.
TRANSPORTATION
How you transport pigs is completely up to you. Like we mentioned above, weaner pigs, from here at least, begin going home around 30 lbs. If you feel comfortable catching and carrying a 30 pound ball of mud and muck, then you can use a variety of methods to get em home.
While we’ve seen a whole host of means, most people either come with a dog crate or kennel, or a stock trailer of some kind.
We have an older couple who’d rather back up to their pen and run them out of the trailer, than wrestle with them.
Other folks just put the weaner pigs two-to-a-crate and haul them home.
If you have questions on this, we’re more than happy to discuss.
We typically send our weaner pigs home between 35-40 lbs. We like to make sure at our pigs are off to a great start and gaining well before you take them home.
We don’t currently deliver weaner pigs, but can work around most schedules to find a good time for you to come by the farm and pick up.
At Prescott Pork, our weaned piglets are fed a mix that we grind here on the farm from ingredients that we source as locally as possible. The mix we feed is a combination of peas, garbanzo beans, fats, and a premix to get the right nutrients and protein they need to grow well.
How much you feed weaner piglets depends on the method that you prefer. Some farms and producers suggest pan feeding twice a day, others suggest free feeding. At Prescott Pork we opt to free feed our weaner pigs, but how you choose to feed them is up to you.
The amount of space required depends on how many pigs you’ll be raising and what kind of space you have available. A 10 x 10 pen or 12 x 12 can accommodate a few growing hogs quite well.
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HOW YOUR WEANER PIG GOT TO THIS POINT
AFTER
FARROWING
1. We make every attempt to attend each farrowing, regardless of the hour to ensure the sow is healthy and piglets are cared for immediately after birth.
2. Immediately after birth, we clip the umbilical cord and administer iodine to prevent bacteria from settling into the cord area, which helps keep the piglet healthy.
3. We also clip teeth right away – while possibly traumatic for a moment, this helps keep the sow more comfortable while nursing.
4. We also administer iron within the first two days – vets recommend within 3 days, but we sometimes find it best to get this one out of the way right after birth.
THE FIRST 3 WEEKS
1. We administer a two-dose shot called Rhini Shield TX4, starting with the first dose between day 7 and 10.
2. Sometime between days 7 and 14, we castrate the boars.
3. Two weeks after that, we give the second dose of the Rhinovirus vaccine, and add another called CircoFlex. Here’s info on that.
Weaning
We typically wean between days 21 and 35. We make this decision based on a number of factors but most often it comes down to health of the sow, health of the piglets, facility availability and our availability.
Worming
Prior to their departure from our farm, your weaner pig will be wormed with either ivermectin or fenbendazole.
Growing
1. We like to get our weaner pigs to 30 lbs before pickup. A range of factors can affect their rate of growth, but generally this is going to happen around 8-10 weeks of age.
2. The weaner pigs that we sell typically live in community housing, sometimes with a couple of dozen other piglets. This makes for efficient feeding and allows us to keep an eye on their growth rate, in relation to other pigs.