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Flat River Farms Pigs

Our full sized pigs are Yorkshires and Hampshires.

We raise them for meat, babies and make our own sausage.

Our pigs are raised naturally, and are not fed for growth or 'production'  as you find in the mass markets. We raise our pigs without hormones, chemical additives in their feeds, so that they and we are happier and healthier.

Not to keep repeating myself, but since the quality of the food we eat affects our overall health and well being, we lean towards raising our food in the healthiest way possible.

We do not dock tails, we do not feed anything to the animals we would not eat ourselves and we do not feed livestock waste back to our livestock as so many pork and beef production farms do.

Each pig is treated like family till it's time to slaughter, and our breeding animals are respected members of our community and are treated with the kindness they deserve. They are after all valuable contributing members of our household.

2009 marks the last year of big pigs for us. After this year we will be concentrating on smaller pigs, like the Vietnamese pot bellies for several reasons.

One, the area in which I live is changing and it is becoming more and more unacceptable to house livestock in any form.

Two, they require and consume less food to produce a pound of meat, and we no longer require as much meat. Our meat intake has lessened greatly over the years.

And lastly,  I'm not capable of slaughtering and handling a big pig anymore with the same speed and ease I could in my younger years. is it is quickly becoming more work than my body can handle at this point.

With all of us having to adapt to the changes in the world, and my ability to function lessens with time, this is the best decision for us at this time. At this point we'll be keeping one smaller hog, and breeding her to supply our meat demands. We grind the pork for 'burger' and are still making sausage but on a much smaller scale.

We will keep the miniature pot bellies as pets.

You can meet and visit the pigs in our photo album.

A happy pig is a MUDDY pig!

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