Sorting Pigs Sorting pigs on pasture isn't any more difficult than off a barnyard. Just put up gates around their coops and shut the pigs in when they are sleeping. Pigs off pasture cooperate better than pigs in a building. Its simple to get my wife to help sort pigs off pasture. Her and my dad want nothing to do with sorting pigs out of a building.
Some packers weight ranges now make semi loads of pigs off pasture very feasible.
The wider the weight range the less times we have to sort. We are selling most of our pigs to Indiana Packers at Delphi Indiana. They will send out a semi for a half a load. We are making sure in the future that we can produce 100 pigs at a time in their 240-287 pound, no discount weight range. They will take them up to 318 pounds with a small discount.