How to keep your pigs in check ?

[Ragna Wulf]

I been struggling to keep my pigs in check they are breeding ridiculous fast, any pointers how to keep them in check ? i have been coining in on just pork and pork sausages haven't gotten to getting cows or anything else,
I have checked the Discussions and could not find anything, maybe it is just me lmao.

[Xoyv]

you could always keep them separate, ensuring that the males and females don't have access to each other depending on how you have their area laid out

[HeavyArms004]

Build 2 or 3 pens the remember to check the pigs on the 3rd or 4th day of there birth when there sleeping check for gender The most importantly animals mate at 4PM

[LittleBoBleat]

Originally posted by Albino Beaver:

I mostly have 2 breeding pigs, and the piglets I have from them are separated as soon as they mature. At that moment I move the males and females each to a different pen where they stay until I decide to make sausages. That way they don't overpopulate, and if a female piglet already is pregnant before I could seperate her I turn her into sausage right away.

The only female pig that I breed in my farm is the one breeding female. I have 3 pens total. One for my 2 breeding pigs (and small piglets), and 2 for future sausages, one for males one for females.

I have a similar setup, keeping only a single breeding female and separating the rest. I house mine in a barn and fence of the back portion with troughs and my breeding female. The other pigs have the rest of the barn with their own troughs. I cull all females at maturity to prevent them from getting bred, and grow out the males to full size before culling them too. If I want to breed the sow, I retain a male just long enough to get her pregnant before culling him. Out of hundreds of litters, I've never had an all female litter, only all male litters or mixed sexes, so I never have to worry about running out of breeding partners for my breeding sow.

As long as you remember the 3/3/3 rule, you should be fine: 3 days pregnant, 3 days to maturity, 3 days to hog boss. So if you breed your female with a 3 day old male, he'll be culling size when her next litter is born. So you only have to cull every 3 days (plus any females on maturity). At the very most, you'll have 6 cullable males, 6 mature males, and 6 infant males (plus your breeding sow) all at the same time, though the chances to have consistently large litters of only males is slim.

Notes:
- Store bought pigs are 3 days old by default.
- Pigs breed at 16:00, so it's easy to encourage or prevent matings if desired.
- A fully grown pig drops 26 pieces of meat. If it drops less, it wasn't full grown.

[halfbaked2001]

got to keep the breeders thinned out I run 1 male and 3 breeding females let them breed then when babies get knocked up I kill those babies and let the male babies grow up to keep population under control in 1 pen. Sometimes once the momma has a batch and gets knocked up a second time I'll kill the daddy and then when she has her babies and they are eating on their own kill her so the babies can grow and breed that way it helps control population.