All of our pigs, i.e. boars, breeding sows, piglets or porkers, live in well-aired pigsties with sufficient room for moving about freely. All year round, they have a roofed outdoor space. Their beds are littered with straw.

The pigs are fed with coarsely ground grain and other of the farm's own products.

The breeding sows are of the race called Deutsche Landrasse. They are covered by a Duroc boar. The cross-breeds have better breeding qualities than either parent race. In order to raise purebred young breeding sows, selected sows are artificially inseminated with the semen of a Deutsche Landrasse boar.

Piglets are born in farrowing pens that are also littered with straw. They are weaned after six weeks and usually fattened. After 200 to 220 days, a pig has gained a live weight of 120 to 125 kg and is killed in our own slaughterhouse.