Big Muddy Hogs

“Big Muddy Hogs offers pasture-raised pork and chicken using regenerative practices.”

Our mission is to produce clean, sustainable, humanely raised pork and poultry for our local food shed. We raise heritage breed  Mulefoot & Red Wattle hogs on pasture with no antibiotics ever. We’re a farrow to finish farm so we maintain a breeding herd to produce all of our piglets. This helps us to be sustainable and produce a consistent premium quality product for our customers.

Farm Size

30 acres

Products

• Pork
• Chicken
• Eggs
• Turkey

Herd Size

24 sows, 2 boars, 200 feeder pigs 
2,000 broilers (per year)
30 laying hens

Animal Feed

Animals are allowed to forage with supplemental feed.

Rotation

• Laying hens: free roaming
• Broiler chickens: moved daily
• Hogs: rotated every 1-3 weeks
• Turkeys: rotated weekly
• All animals (except broilers) are raised within electrified net fencing; broilers are raised in field shelters called chicken tractors. All housing is mobile, built on skids or trailers, to move with the animals throughout the season.

Conservation Practices

• Integrated pest management
• Riparian herbaceous cover
• Field border
• Fencing animals to prevent them from entering waterways
• Grazing management plan

Additional Practices

• No nose rings in hogs
• No docked tails for hogs
• Heritage breeds like black Mulefoot and Red Wattle hogs
• No forced weaning for hogs
• No debeaking chickens