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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: WinslowPorker on August 28, 2012, 08:42:07 pm

Title: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: WinslowPorker on August 28, 2012, 08:42:07 pm

Hi again
Just wondering if anyway who has reared Pietrains (albeit they are crossed with Saddlebacks) what was the weight they reached when you sent them off for slaughter? I last did some GOS x Saddlebacks and they were between 110 a 100 kilos?


Regards
WP

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: robert waddell on August 28, 2012, 08:45:19 pm

depends on there age depends on what they have been been fed on  the same weight is possible and beyond :farmer:

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: WinslowPorker on August 28, 2012, 08:49:10 pm

I weighed them today using the trusty tape measure and calculated at about 50kilos, and we are guessing they are about 4 months old at the moment but will get a clearer idea once we have done the registration bit

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: robert waddell on August 28, 2012, 08:57:41 pm

who are you registering them with :farmer:

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: WinslowPorker on August 28, 2012, 09:06:22 pm

As in we brought them Saturday from the market and now the forms have been done we should get some more information I assume? My friend has the CPU number and does all of that it, so at the moment we don't actually know how old they are, more guessing by their size, hence my question, so all advice much appreciated  :farmer:

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: robert waddell on August 28, 2012, 09:31:26 pm

if it is an auction mart you will be lucky if they give a date for the birth      they usually sell them as younger than what they are         i keep going on about buying pedigree but with pedigree there is the provenance of date of birth /pure bred and where they came from   out a mart it is just your Donald duck  unless you know the seller
 
it was just that in your first post you mentioned they are a cross with saddelback  as yet the bpa are not birth notifying cross breeds even if they are pedigree :farmer:

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: lill on August 29, 2012, 07:05:47 am

Hi WP, A friend of mine has pietrain x duroc (pedigree) and sent to slaughter at 6 month and was 79 kilos dead weight. You can push the pigs further but you need to have a slaughterhouse that will take large pigs. What ever slaughterhouse you are using please find out what the maximum weight is that they can take or you may have your pigs too big and refused unloading. The weight you state 110 & 100 is that live weight or dead weight?

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: WinslowPorker on August 29, 2012, 07:56:50 pm

So I guess I should still aim for the 100 kg live weight as before?


Another question, in fact no a new post me thinks


Wp :excited:

Title: Re: Pietrains pigs kill weight?h
Post by: lill on August 30, 2012, 03:40:09 pm

If you aim for the 100-110 kilo you will be ok.