This past weekend we rotated our guinea hogs to a new portion of our orchard. The move here necessitated letting the pigs loose from their last pen, and enticing them to walk about 20 feet over to this new pen. Of course they always wander a bit during the move, but a bucket of grain usually motivates a few into the new pen, and the rest quickly follow. We had a big pile of brewing grain in the new pen so the pigs could eat up!
We seeded cover crops in this area after the pigs were last in here, and over the past few months the cover crops grew to make quite the jungle! The pigs will make quick work of it, though. They’ll eat all that forage down, and keep more weeds from growing in the orchard.
We have a total of 3 orchard spaces we use to rotate the pigs. While guinea hogs aren’t nearly as destructive to the soil as other pig breeds are, they still make their pens a muddy, stinky mess. Rotating them helps alleviate erosion and smell, plus it’s healthier for the animals.
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