Pork Prose
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the breeder.
Evaluate the semen? You can.
But the best and final test is
whether the boar can breed and
settle sows.
What to pay for a boar? The
most important thing to remember
is that the boar can take your herd
forward or backward. For exam
ple, if you buy a boar that’s too fat
and he adds.l inch of 10th rib fat to
your market hogs, he’s costing you
at least a dollar a head for every
hog you sell in the Hatfield grading
program. If he improves the feed/
gain ratio by .1 pound, he saving
you at least $ 1.25 per head for each
of his offspring on the finishing
floor. So how much is the boar
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