Our pig is a spot and he is eatting 8lbs of food and is not gaining any weight. He is at 221 and has been that weight for 7 day what can we do to help him put on some weight.

how long since you wormed him?

We Wormed him again about 2 weeks ago and have wormed him as the Vet has told us to.

hows its feed intake does he eat everything? i'll try putting some powder milk in the feed seen if that helps ?? but i'll would'nt be to worried his over 200 his made the weight in any show just do'nt let him LOOSE weight?

We are taking him to SA and he has to weight 230 with a 10lbs and he eats everything. He eats like a pig!! LOL

i would try to fed him twice daily and give him a cup of the powder milk or even a cup of vanilla cake mix ? that's helped me in the past with my picky light weights ? you got a week still ? huh if i'am correct ? do that twice a day feed him ?

Thanks for the help!

No Problem ? GOOD LUCK !!!

try calf mana as an additive it help break down the feed increases appetite and is just a general supplement. It is nothing extreme but it might be a safe edge to put you over right where you want to be.

Do this in addition to jays advise on multiple feedings.

Put pure corn oil in his feed. May also want to try the power up supplement, or the mor fat supplement! Many different approaches you can take!

ive used vegetable oil but corn oil and even lard works just dont over do it. How much protein are you feeding? you can also mix in sweet feed makes them eat more, cut your protein and increases fat intake. Even whole milk might help like Minyardshowpigs said there are so many different approaches you can take but you have come this far you dont want to miss the weight by just one pound or two but you also dont have to pay an arm and a leg to get just that.

i want to thank all of you for the help. we missed the county show by 2lbs and our son is so disapointed so we are hoping that we can make it in the SA show. Thanks again everyone.

Anything we can do to help. Just don't overload the process, because you can get to much finish on the hog, and then it will decrease, ruining the soundness and general appearance of the swine, this will also cause a stress overload.

try powdered milk, we use the kind that is pre packaged from the grocey store.(just pour it right over)

sprinkle over feed and feed three times a day, your 8#'s divided into 3 feedings. Nightly feeding give a lil more. has worked for us many times