{"id":4199,"date":"2019-10-14T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2019-10-14T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:50:11","slug":"learn-more-about-pastured-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/learn-more-about-pastured-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about Pastured pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastured pigs are free range pigs that are born and raised outdoors and spend their entire lives free to graze on pasture in open paddocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastured pork is not ‘grass fed’ pork, not in the truest sense of that term because pigs cannot survive on grass alone.\u00a0 Pigs are omnivores and that means that like you and me, they need a varied diet that consists of a nutritionally balanced feed that includes fibre, energy (carbs) and protein along with essential vitamins and minerals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pigs on pasture do eat a lot of grass and also get a lot of their nutritional needs from the soil but the main reason for calling them pastured pigs is to best describe how they live their lives while on farm.\u00a0 Pastured production means always having access to grazing, living in open paddocks with plenty of room for the pigs, no feed lotting and no overcrowding.
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Raising free range pigs on pasture also means that the sows live their entire lives outdoors and give birth outside while being provided protection from the elements and predators.\u00a0 There is generally no fixed sheds or buildings in a pastured free range system as housing and hutches are mobile so that they can easily be moved around the paddocks with the pigs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastured pork is produced in a farming system that ensures all pigs of all classes and ages are outdoors, not just the sows as is the practice in ‘outdoor bred systems’.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Advantages of Pasture raised Pigs<\/p>\n

When pigs are raised on pasture, with access to natural forage and plenty of sunshine, their meat and fat is also richer in micronutrients, particularly fat-soluble vitamins E and D,\u00a0as well as minerals like selenium. As monogastric animals, like humans, pigs make vitamin D in their skin and in their fat when they\u2019re exposed to sunlight, making pasture-raised pork particularly rich in vitamin D.<\/p>\n

Further, pigs raised on pasture are not routinely given antibiotics or ractopamine, a feed additive that\u2019s banned in 160 countries but used routinely in industrial US pork production.<\/p>\n

When pigs\u00a0are raised on pasture, with free access to move, root around and wallow in the mud and beneath the sunshine, they enjoy an existence that is species-appropriate. When they\u2019re raised in confinement, without room to move freely, they\u2019re often subject to deplorable conditions \u2013 hard surfaces, gestational crates\u00a0that completely restrict movement of sows, and foul odors of ammonia that can harm their lungs.<\/p>\n

Confinement operations that hold 2,500 to 10,000 pigs at a time which creates a massive problem for waste disposal. Festering pits of animal waste can create an enormous environmental burden, and threaten local waterways.\u00a0By contrast, when pigs are raised on pasture and managed holistically through rotational grazing, the problem of waste disposal becomes small. \u00a0Instead of damaging the environment, the waste animals deposit builds the soil, and their natural rooting ability acts as tilling the soil \u2013 preparing it for food production \u00a0in future seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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