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Farming Simulator 25isn’t all about planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops; there is a plethora of different livestock available in the game, too. These animals are all used for the same purpose in the game as they are in real life, ranging from meat to byproducts and other passive benefits.
One of the livestock you can farm is pigs. Pigs are a middle-of-the-road situation; they aren’t terribly involved to manage, but they aren’t quite as easy to keep around as bees, either. But, for the amount of effort you put in, pigs can provide massive benefits in both money and helpful byproducts.
Construction For Keeping Pigs
There are a few different buildings you can build for keeping pigs.Most of these buildings function similarly to each other, and are straight upgrades that are reflected in their price.
Pig Pasture
20,000
The Pig Pasture houses36 pigs, and is the most barebones building for housing pigs in the game. There are multiple downsides to the Pig Pasture: you need tomanually fill it with waterfor the pigs, and youcannot collect slurry, which is a useful byproduct.
Pigsty
67,000
The Pigsty houses 50 pigs, and is the first pig building that automatically gives your pigs water, and allows you to collect slurry from them.
Shed With Pig Pasture
44,000
This houses25 pigs, making it the smallest in terms of pig capacity. But, it does automatically water the pigs and allows you to collect slurry. Overall, it’s an improvement over the default Pig Pasture.
Pigsty 2
109,000
This Pigsty can hold considerably more pigs than the first one,with a capacity of109 pigs. It functions the same otherwise, making it the second tier of Pigsty.
Pigsty 3
164,000
The final Pigsty is the most expensive, and hasthe highest capacity at275 pigs. Functionally, it works the same.
There aretwo different waysto keep your pigs fed.
Feeding Your Pigs With Crops
Feeding pigs is a very simple process, sincepigs will eat just about anything. In terms of crops that you grow, pigs will eat:
These can be a readily available food source for them, but if you’re looking to regularly sell your crops for a profit or have them included in other supply chains, it can cause problems.
However, if you do choose to go this route with feeding your pigs, it can be made easier bykeeping specialized fieldsnear your pig habitations, for a couple of reasons.
For one, it’s going to ensure that the field isspecifically suited for feeding pigs. It won’t be confused as a field with a different purpose, and you won’t accidentally sell it without remembering to feed your pigs, first.
Second,itkeeps the transport of the crops down. You can bring it right from the field, and to the pigs, without driving across the map to do it. For something that you’re going to be doing with regularity, it will save you a lot of time in the long run.
Rotating Crops
If playing with seasonal growth turned on, you need to consider that in thewinter months,the crops that your pigs need aren’t going to grow. During these months, you may eitherbuy pig feedfrom the store orkeep some food back in a silothroughout the year.
You’re also going to want to need to consider your pigs' dietary needs. Simply feeding them a steady supply of sunflowers isn’t going to get them to their fullest, androtating through base food,grain,root crops, and proteinis going to maximize their potential.
Feeding Your Pigs With Pig Feed
Pig Feed is available for purchase in thePacks>Animalssection of the store. Pig Food costs €1,000, which isn’t terribly expensive considering the convenience of it. The trade-off for pig food means that you’re going to bespending less time managing your pig’s dietwith crops, but makingless profit overallby outright buying the food.
Storing Your Pig Food And Straw
Loading your pig habitations with pig food varies slightly cosmetically depending on what kind of habitation you’ve built, but functions essentially the same. For all of these buildings, the area in which you need to store food has a food symbol next to it. Simplydrive the food to that symbol, drop it, and it willautomatically load into the container for the pigs.
Straw works much in the same way, but isn’t used in the simple fenced-in Pig Pasture. For the other buildings that do use straw,drive the bale of straw to the same place you load the food, and it will be there for the pigs when they need it.
How To Collect Slurry
Collecting slurry from your Pigsty is also very easy, but is going to require certain equipment.You’re going to either need aslurry tankerif you want to transport vast amounts of slurry,or aslurry spreaderif you move lower quantities.
These come in various prices, starting at €31,500 and €37,500 for a spreader and a tanker, respectively. They’re found in theYield Improvementssection of the store, andrequire a tractorto pullthem.
If you opt for Garant or Oxbovariations on the spreader, you won’t need the tractor, but they are considerably more expensive.
How To Buy Pigs
There aretwo different ways to buy pigs; one of them is considerably more convenient than the other.
You can buy pigs at zero months old, or at three months old, with older pigs being more expensive.
Buying Pigs At Your Pigstys
you’re able to buy pigs at a pigsty, andthose pigs will load directly into their home right when you buy them. This keeps you from having to transport pigs across the map, which requires an animal transport vehicle. This is veryslightly more expensive per pig, but avoids the upfront cost of the animal transport attachment.
Buying Pigs From An Animal Dealer
You can also buy pigs from an animal dealer in town. You can buy most varieties of animals here, not just pigs, and willavoid the fee of delivering the pigright to its new home.
The Life Of A Pig
There are three different varieties of pigs, but theirdifferences are entirely cosmetic. The pig types are:
Young Pigs
Pigs that are agedzero-six months old are unable to reproduce, and so eat, sleep, and play without doing anything else. Once pigs get tosix months old, they start reproducing, and you’ll gain more pigs without having to buy them.
Adult Pigs
Adult pigscan be sold for profit. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when selling pigs, though.
You’ll gainless money for selling pigs without transporting themto where they’re going to end up. This will, again, keep you from the cost of animal transport and save you time, but it’s going tocut into your profit, especially over bulk.
You also don’t want to hurt your pig population too much. If you sell too many adult pigs, you’re not going to have pigs reproducing at the same rate. This is going to hurt future profit, and sokeeping a healthy population of pigsis going to help you earn more, in the long run.
