EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I've got a domestic boar I've had for a little over a year. I haven't fed him out on that high protein stuff...just creep feed, and a bag of pig and sow every so often ... plus table scraps of course. I plan on slaughtering this winter. I've heard your suppose to finish them out on corn the last month or so. I've already started on the corn.

Guys that have raised pigs....What's the purpose of finishing on corn? Makes the meat better?

Have u barred him yet if not he's still going to taste good anyways .. I think finishing them off with corn just butters them up before killing. 

Adds fat and cleans out there system. Folks always fed anything and everything to hogs. The corn feed out gets all that out and helps marble them.


Shotgun
Arkansas

Corn is not high in fat or protein. You would better off feeding him a high quality hog finisher.
  I know all the old timers used to do it but you take the commercial hog farmers & if they dont make their own feed, they use a hog finisher feed.
  My uncle used to use a combination of peanuts & corn that he ground it all together, shells & all for his hogs.

U are correct. Corn is not high in fat or protein. Corn is high in sugar and starch which is high carbohydrates. Pig finisher is also low fat. Most runs around 4%. It is high in carbohydrates. Both serve the same purpose of increasing carb intake which in turn produces fat in what eats it.


Shotgun
Arkansas

Also finisher is cheaper than corn historically due to it being made of by products instead of whole feeds.


Shotgun
Arkansas

I'd cut him first... use chopped corn instead of whole corn.

Chopped or cracked and they'll digest it far better...we've always finished hogs on corn and sometimes a steer. 

x2...and soak it over night to make it more digestible...I would castrate him as well...

Castrate this late in the game?

Probably slaughter him in what....2 1/2 - 3 months.

Will it make that big a difference?

yes it will make a difference. 3 months is plenty of time to feed out after you cut him

We use to feed the sweet cakes and cup cakes from a locale bakeries the problem with the protein feeds are they will make the meat to lean and dry jmo

Not arguing just trying to learn/understand. What will it do barring the hog for just a short time? I know over a long period they put on weight because they are running around chasing sows....just eating.

This Boar is all by his lonesomes now, in a 16X16 pen. He doesn't RUN anywhere, lol.

Testosterone? Maybe make the meat taste better?

it will take the "stink" out of the meat. he will also finish better, and have a better feed conversion. more meat, and "fattier" better marbled meat. he won't be as tough and dry.

What he said

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Testosterone burns calories. 

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This is said pig....."Bacon"

"His future ain't lookin to bright" - J.C.


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 sure his future is looking bright. bright for your purpose, maybe not his. lol.

  got some good looking hams on him   lol  .  don't forget to take the jowl off of his head when you do it  . to me that's the best part of a hog  lol  and if you cut him be sure and make you some fried mountain oysters   lol

Corn does clean em out but it will make a big difference in the meat texture also My family always raised meat hogs throughout my childhood but didn't figure out about  the difference in the meat until we killed three woods hogs that had been fed out and three straight out of the woods. corn = marble texture

I would cut him first put him on hog finisher for about 60 days that pig in the pic already has about the right amount of fat on him now. Then enjoy