The breeding

IL BOSCO IN BIO priority is the best for our pigs: food, space, environment. We started by breeding few animals and today we have about a hundred of them on 10 fenced hectares.

A small area is for reproduction (boars, sows and piglets), instead the oak woods (8 hectares) is for wild breeding. Animals grow in well-being, feeding on grass, acorns, tubers, roots and wild fruits. We complete their diet with farm-produced organic flours of cereal and leguminous.

We mainly breed “gray” pigs (crossbreed between Cinta Senese and Large White) but we are also experimenting with a three-spoke crossbreed (Cinta Senese x Large White x Duroc) really fitting for wild breeding.

Piglets are weaned after 50 days of life. The adult subjects are slaughtered after 18-20 months of life, thus obtaining a harmonious development and a right meat maturation.

Our fields

According to the organic farming rules, we cultivate on our flieds: wheat, barley, field bean and sorghum.

We do not practice any type of chemical weeding but only non-invasive agronomic practices, such as: minimum tillage, subsoiling, sowing, rolling and harrowing.

Fertilization is minimal and only using authorized products for organic farming. We store the harvest in cool and dry rooms where it is conserved to be ground daily, a balanced mix of flours to feed our pigs.

The breeding

Our fields

IL BOSCO IN BIO

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