[chickenfeed]

dont know if this will help but in our early days we kept records of weights taken weekly on each new breed we kept i seem to have lost a few of the breeds but have dug out the osb's we took them to 25 weeks on the weigh band they ranged from 70kg, 75kg & 76kg killed out @ 112lb, 120lb & 122lb this is excluding head and waste just the boxed meat all entire boars (we usually run boars for meat and have taken them to 8 months no problems our reason for this is we find less BF on boars but that is just our opinion & findings over the years) the osb's have a slower grow rate than some we have tried but the fat is wasy less than some too wont say which i dont want a fight today 

[robert waddell]

be a devil chickenfeed post it up it is ment to be a learning forum

[chickenfeed]

no breeds mentioned here but both are black & white    its been a long weekend and its monday morning i am in a good mood from the weekends results so i dont fancy a fight on my hands    (today)

[Berkshire Boy]

Well said chickenfeed I don't rate the saddlebacks and Hampshires either.

[chickenfeed]

  who said that

[robert waddell]

BB your choice of pig is black and white as well

[chickenfeed]

             

[Berkshire Boy]

That is true Robert but everyone knows they are the best.

[ScotsGirl]

I really like their personality although wish we had some girlies as love watching them root around and they have done a brilliant job rotovating the perimeter of our field. Will be sad to see them go.
 
OH wanted GOS or Saddlebacks but he was outvoted!
The boys measured around 47kg to 58kg on weigh tape method assuming I calculated correctly - girth (cm) x girth x length divided by 400?

[Daisys Mum]

Both my osb boars and my saddleback boars were kept together and they were all 27 weeks when they went off this morning, they will be back to the butcher on Wednesday so will try to get some photos of the carcasses on .

[robert waddell]

BB if they are all fed  killed  and cooked the same way  there will be minimal differance in the end product

[Bumblebear]

BB what weight would you send yours at?  Min eare 50ish KG which I know is prob too small but just wondering how heavy I should go.

[Berkshire Boy]

I usually send mine between 60 and 70 kilo.

[rispainfarm]

We used to send them between 60 and 70 kilo as well berkshire boy. We have never suffered boar taint in the eleven years we have been keeping pigs. Even with some of our boars who we kept till 8/9 months, I guess we were just lucky maybe.

[Tiva Diva]

We normally send ours for pork at about 22-26 weeks, and for bacon at 9 months-1 year. We don't normally keep uncastrated boars much past 7 months, but had 2 that went at nearly 10 months the winter before last (because we couldn't get them out of their field past the 4 foot snowdrifts etc. before then) and they made beautiful bacon, with no hint of taint.