Comments on: Sound Seeing — Cream Separator http://geekfarmlife.com/2006/05/15/sound-seeing-cream-separator/ Two geeks move to rural Indiana...what could go wrong? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: misty http://geekfarmlife.com/2006/05/15/sound-seeing-cream-separator/#comment-153 Mon, 15 May 2006 17:01:04 +0000 http://geekfarmlife.com/2006/05/15/sound-seeing-cream-separator/#comment-153 Thanks for the comment! We'll give this some more thought -- maybe for next year. The two pigs we just got are destined for the freezer. I also don't want to become a pig farm -- I find that there is hardly any odor from just two pigs, but 10+ is a different story! Of course that may be different when you can pasture them. Thanks for the comment! We’ll give this some more thought — maybe for next year. The two pigs we just got are destined for the freezer. I also don’t want to become a pig farm — I find that there is hardly any odor from just two pigs, but 10+ is a different story! Of course that may be different when you can pasture them.

]]> by: Walter Jeffries http://geekfarmlife.com/2006/05/15/sound-seeing-cream-separator/#comment-152 Mon, 15 May 2006 16:41:31 +0000 http://geekfarmlife.com/2006/05/15/sound-seeing-cream-separator/#comment-152 Misty, over on my blog <a href="http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog" rel="nofollow">Sugar Mtn Farm</a> you had mentioned the issue of overwintering pigs. It doesn't take much. We have simple <a href="http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/01/musical-housing.html" rel="nofollow">pallet sheds and three sided pole sheds</a> with walls made of hay and <a href="http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2005/11/pig-house-warming.html" rel="nofollow">dens dug into the hill</a> (also see <a href="http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2005/11/winter-pig-dens.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>) that are effectively three sided sheds too. This year for winter farrowing we made <a href="http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/01/winter-farrowing-ideas-1.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> ultra simple greenhouse structure out of wire and plastic sheeting. In the winter we feed hay to the pigs - that replaces the pasture. They are very hardy and deal well with the cold even here in the mountains of northern Vermont. Misty, over on my blog Sugar Mtn Farm you had mentioned the issue of overwintering pigs.

It doesn’t take much. We have simple pallet sheds and three sided pole sheds with walls made of hay and dens dug into the hill (also see here) that are effectively three sided sheds too. This year for winter farrowing we made this ultra simple greenhouse structure out of wire and plastic sheeting. In the winter we feed hay to the pigs - that replaces the pasture. They are very hardy and deal well with the cold even here in the mountains of northern Vermont.

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