Planting a cover crop in the pig pen last year

After our berkshire pigs exhausted the entire pen of plants and roots we move them to a new pasture pen. Our hog pens are fenced in cattle fencing and have one hot wire about 8-10 inches off the ground. This has worked very well for us at keeping the pigs in over the years.
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The pigs grow very fast in the new pasture with help of a couple of pounds of hog pellets a day, along with home and garden scraps.

We just took about 10 lbs of barley and oats mixed with a bit of red clover seed.
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Clean up some of the rocks and rake the seeds in a day before rain is forecasted.
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And about two weeks or so later the grain is over 6 inches tall.
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Two more weeks and its over a foot tall and the new pig shelter is built for them.
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By six weeks later we moved the pigs back in to their pen when the grain is over a foot and a half tall and forming seed heads. This lasted them about a month before they exhausted the pen again. This is a great cheap way to cover the ground fast and keep the pigs busy and well fed.
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Here is a couple of months later and the three breeders we kept the other two went to freezer camp they weighted about 230lbs at 10 months old.
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Thanks for looking there is many things you can plant for your pigs to eat this is one of the fastest ways we have found.
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