“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.”
300 Adams street #572
Hurst, IL 62949
8:00 am- 6:00 pm
Big Muddy Hogs Farm Store
300 Adams street #572
Hurst, IL 62949
Daily (8:00am–6:00pm)
30 acres
No conventional herbicides or synthetic fertilizers
Integrated pest management
Riparian herbaceous cover
Field border
Fencing animals to prevent them from entering waterways
Grazing management plan
No animal confinement
No non-therapeutic antibiotics
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
24 sows, 2 boars, 200 feeder pigs
2,000 broilers (per year)
30 laying hens
Animals are allowed to forage with supplemental feed.
Our laying hens allowed to roam the entire farm every day, depending on the season and forage available. Broiler chickens are moved daily, hogs are rotated every 1-3 weeks, depending on what our goals are for their impact on the land as well as forage available. Turkeys are 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.
