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  • From: "Bev and Chuck Henkel" <bchenkel AT conpoint.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: market-farming rootertillers
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:28:33 -0600



> << I've got two baby gilts (pigs) on order to start an experiment using
> them in portable pens to open new beds.

My two hogs between last evening and this AM dug a two foot deep hole. I
would think it would have to be a pretty rough and poor area to consider
that degree of rearrangment of top soil and subsoil an improvement from
where you start. Or are you careful to only use smaller animals to prevent
that? When real small they don't get much work done as rooters. What
weight range do you find appropriate?

Around here animals completely healthy except for an umbilical hernia
(called a "belly rupture") sell quite cheaply. Also because they get picked
out and left behind when a pen is sold they can be bought at a higher weight
ready to dig.

Chuck Henkel






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