how can i have pigs without losing any money?
hi pig farmers i wondered if i could get a pig with piglets and sell them as weaners and keep doing that with about 5 sows but i want it as a hobby not to make millions but i dont want to lose any money either so i want to know would it be alright to do that or would i lose money
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Chicka
11 Feb 2010

There is no way to do it without at least losing money initially, you have to have the space and equipment to raise them, as well as the money for food. Often the mother pig is kept in bars and cannot move while the pigglets are little, if left in a pen with them she usually sits on them and kills them by accident.
"Once again if you are a farmer having a first time mother, you may not get a large litter. But after she gave birth, farmer needs to have a lot of knowledge and education. Sometimes the mother can roll over her brand new piglet’s. These piglet’s are very tiny when they are first born and sometimes she can roll over and squash or suffocate one of her own young so it is important to have proper housing for the mother and her piglet’s too."