Raising American Guinea Hogs with Cathy Payne

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Up until a year ago, I didn't even know about this specific breed of hogs, how they differ from the modern breeds, and how to raise them. But after reading "Saving the Guinea Hogs: The Recovery of an American Homestead Breed" by Cathy Payne, I was so excited to get started. Join me as I chat with Cathy in today's Pioneering Today Podcast, Episode #282, all about the American Guinea Hog. For more information, or to read the podcast transcript, visit melissaknorris.com/282.

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0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
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1:25.4	Welcome to episode number 282. Today's episode is really an interesting one because up until just this past year I had
1:40.1	never even known about this breed of hogs and really how they
1:46.7	differed than our regular modern pig and their story. So just a little bit of preface to this episode
1:54.9	is with COVID this year, we were making certain
2:00.1	that we were raising all of our own animals again. We had taken a year off from raising pork mainly because we still had enough
2:06.6	pork in the fridge.
2:08.8	And with our pigs that is not a livestock that I have set up for breeding purposes.
2:14.8	So we go to a local breeder, we get our pigs from them as piglets,
2:19.5	we get them in the springtime, and then we usually butcher right about October when the pigs are
2:23.8	about six months of age but because of all the other types of livestock that we
2:28.4	raised we just simply didn't need to raise unless we had enough meat to last
2:32.1	well enter COVID we were already need to raise unless we had enough meat to last.
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