Tamworth: April 2008 Archives

I found what I was looking for last year! We will be raising 2 tamworth piglet barrows* for fall harvest. They are not ready to be weaned yet. So it will be mid may before I go to pick them up from a heritage breeder south of me. They should be weighing at about 40lbs each when I get them.

Tamworth's are a heritage breed of pig. I am told they are some of the better tasting of porcine breeds.

To be properly fed out these little pigs should gain about 1lb a day every day until butcher. That is a lot of eating! Depending on how we do with these we may consider a gilt next year and raise her for breeding our own piglets.

Have I ever told you all that we live on a little farm? We do!

* barrow - castrated male pig for growing out for eating purposes.

*gilt - young female pigs.